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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Resi and Helga related?
(a) They are not related; Resi uses Helga's family name to trick the narrator.
(b) They are brother and sister.
(c) They are mother and daughter.
(d) They are sisters.

2. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?
(a) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.
(b) A print of Picasso's Guernica.
(c) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.
(d) A picture history of the First World War.

3. Which country did Robert, the limousine driver, support during the war?
(a) Italy.
(b) Japan.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

4. What is NOT one of the ways Helga made a living when she was separated from the narrator?
(a) Working as an actress in Berlin.
(b) Working in a cigarette factory in Dresden.
(c) Working as an interpreter and file clerk in Siberian POW camp.
(d) Working on a labor gang in the Ukraine.

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

6. The Blue Fairy Godmother tells the narrator that to do his job right, he will have to:
(a) Commit high treason.
(b) Earn the trust of the leader of a white supremacist group.
(c) Kill his best friend.
(d) Convince everyone he is Jewish.

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

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

9. Where does Helga get the money to be able to reunite with the narrator?
(a) Donations from the narrator's supporters.
(b) A bounty hunter looking for the narrator.
(c) A life insurance settlement from her deceased parents.
(d) Lottery winnings.

10. What does Arpad Kovacs call people who did nothing to save their own lives or anyone else's lives?
(a) Briquets.
(b) Excrement.
(c) Rotten apples.
(d) Sheep.

11. 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) A train filled with prisoners is arriving.
(b) Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse.
(c) Take cover because the camp was going to be bombed.
(d) Prisoners return to work.

12. What does the narrator mean when he claims, "I became what I am today and what I will always be, a stateless person"?
(a) That the concept of statehood is absurd and there should be just one United State, not fifty.
(b) That he can never return to the United States because he wrote propaganda for the Nazis.
(c) That he can never return to Germany because he was a spy for the Americans.
(d) That the "Nation of Two" that he and his wife created no longer exists because of her death.

13. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?
(a) Cries.
(b) Snores and grinds his teeth.
(c) Says the names of two women and talks about a city.
(d) Sleepwalks.

14. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?
(a) She suffered from dementia and did not know who he was.
(b) She had gained a lot of weight.
(c) Her hair had become snowy white.
(d) She was blind.

15. What is the surprise that Rev. Jones and his entourage present to the narrator?
(a) The FBI.
(b) Israeli agents.
(c) A pair of Broadway producers who want to produce his play about Nazi Germany.
(d) A woman who appears to be his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?

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

3. After the war, how many years did the narrator live in New York?

4. Comparing himself to Lionel Jones, the narrator insists that he is neither __________ nor __________.

5. Which city does the narrator say was "Hell" or "Purgatory" for him?

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