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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Resi Noth when the narrator leaves for the front lines?
(a) 21 years old.
(b) A newborn infant.
(c) 45 years old.
(d) 10 years old.

2. Which characteristic does NOT describe Howard W. Campbell, Jr.'s father?
(a) Engineer for General Electric.
(b) Son of a Baptist minister.
(c) Raised in Tennessee.
(d) World War I veteran.

3. What is one thing that Heinz was willing to do for his motorcycle that he was not willing to do for his wife?
(a) Stand in front of an advancing tank.
(b) Spend entire weekends together.
(c) Buy expensive accessories.
(d) Give up smoking.

4. What secret does Resi reveal to the narrator before he leaves for the front lines?
(a) That she is pregnant with his baby.
(b) That she knows that Helga is still alive.
(c) That she is in love with him.
(d) That Helga had left the narrator for another man.

5. What unique symbol is on Campbell's typewriter given to him in the Jerusalem prison?
(a) Twin lightning strokes that symbolized the Nazi S.S.
(b) A swastika.
(c) A Star of David.
(d) The yin and yang symbol.

6. What fact does the narrator never reveal to his wife?
(a) That he had cheated on her.
(b) That he was born in the United States.
(c) That he was a spy.
(d) That he was part Jewish.

7. Which of the following is NOT a revelation that Mr. Noth, Helga's father, reveals to the narrator:
(a) He had opposed the marriage between Helga and the narrator.
(b) The narrator made him unashamed to be a Nazi.
(c) He would have had the narrator shot if he found out he was a spy.
(d) Helga is not really his daughter.

8. What is the war crime that Howard Campbell stands accused of?
(a) Delivering orders of Cyklon-B to the death camps.
(b) Promoting Nazi propaganda.
(c) Spying on America.
(d) Mistreating Allied POWs at a prison camp.

9. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?
(a) One twin brother who died as an infant.
(b) No brothers and seven older sisters.
(c) One brother and two sisters.
(d) None.

10. How did the narrator say he ended up in Germany?
(a) He was working as a war correspondent for the New York Times.
(b) His father was transferred there because of work.
(c) He went there on a college work-study program.
(d) His German wife missed her family and was homesick.

11. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?
(a) The working title of a play commemorating the German soldiers who died putting down the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(b) A musical measure in an opera written in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels.
(c) The last train full of Jewish prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz.
(d) The last time the crematories at Auschwitz were emptied of bodies before Allied forces freed the camp.

12. Which description does NOT apply to Lionel Jones?
(a) Failed dental student.
(b) Inventor.
(c) Owner of a fake divinity school.
(d) Radio talk show host.

13. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?
(a) Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse.
(b) Take cover because the camp was going to be bombed.
(c) A train filled with prisoners is arriving.
(d) Prisoners return to work.

14. When they are reunited, what does Helga say she will do if the narrator has no room for her in his life?
(a) Try to just become good friends.
(b) Sue him for divorce and take half of everything he has.
(c) Kill herself.
(d) Say goodbye, disappear, and never bother him again.

15. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?
(a) A song from the Brownies girls' club.
(b) The Serenity Prayer.
(c) The American Pledge of Allegiance.
(d) The Boy Scout motto.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare Resi's dog?

2. What is the surprise that Rev. Jones and his entourage present to the narrator?

3. What sport did the narrator and Heinz Schildknecht play together?

4. When the narrator was serving as an American agent, how did he send coded information out of Germany?

5. In what year does Howard Campbell write his story?

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