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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the narrator lose Helga?
(a) She was accused of spying for the Americans and was sent to a prison camp.
(b) She left him for another man.
(c) She died giving birth to their first child.
(d) Russian troops seized the area where she was entertaining the troops and she is presumed dead.

2. What is the city in which Campbell, Jr. sits in jail waiting for his trial to begin?
(a) Nuremberg.
(b) The Hague.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) New York.

3. How does Mr. Noth die?
(a) Hanged by slave laborers.
(b) Burned to death when his house is bombed.
(c) Murdered by the assistant chief of police who wanted his job.
(d) In a death camp.

4. Which of the following is NOT a symbol that the narrator had drawn in the dust of his windowpanes:
(a) A hammer and sickle.
(b) A cross.
(c) The Stars and Stripes.
(d) A swastika.

5. What does Heinz Schildknecht love above all else?
(a) His career.
(b) His wife.
(c) His motorcycle.
(d) His country.

6. Comparing himself to Lionel Jones, the narrator insists that he is neither __________ nor __________.
(a) Smart nor good-looking.
(b) Ignorant nor insane.
(c) Racist nor bigoted.
(d) German nor American.

7. Where does the narrator first see the woman he thinks is Helga when they are reunited?
(a) Across the room at a party.
(b) At the bottom of the stairwell in his building.
(c) In her hospital room.
(d) On a train platform.

8. What does the narrator do with his broom?
(a) Carves the handle with his wood-carving set.
(b) Gives it to his neighbor's daughter who wanted to dress as a witch for Halloween.
(c) Hits an attacker over the head with it.
(d) Offers to sweep the hallways of his building in exchange for rent.

9. When the narrator was serving as an American agent, how did he send coded information out of Germany?
(a) In the form of special mannerisms, pauses, coughs, and stumbles during his broadcasts.
(b) By drawing cartoons that revealed a secret message when folded a certain way.
(c) By using acrostics, where the reader would look at the first letter of each word in a newspaper article.
(d) By writing letters to his Native American grandmother in the Navajo language.

10. What does the narrator notice about Lionel Jones' hand?
(a) He always wears a glove on one, but not the other.
(b) It is missing two fingers.
(c) It is soft and smooth as if Jones had never done any honest labor in his entire life.
(d) It glitters with rings like the hand of a prince.

11. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?
(a) A musical measure in an opera written in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels.
(b) The working title of a play commemorating the German soldiers who died putting down the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
(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. What sport did the narrator and Heinz Schildknecht play together?
(a) Golf.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Ping-pong.
(d) Boxing.

13. In what year does Howard Campbell write his story?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1945.

14. Besides the United States, Jones says his Minuteman publication has a small circulation in what country?
(a) Israel.
(b) Russia.
(c) West Germany.
(d) France.

15. 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 part Jewish.
(d) That he was a spy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the narrator say he ended up in Germany?

2. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?

3. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?

4. What does Helga say is the reason she did not get in touch with the narrator when she learned of his whereabouts?

5. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?

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