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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the "Blue Fairy Godmother"?
(a) Helga Noth.
(b) Abraham Epstein's mother.
(c) Rudolph Hoess.
(d) Major Frank Wirtanen.

3. 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 he can never return to Germany because he was a spy for the Americans.
(b) That the "Nation of Two" that he and his wife created no longer exists because of her death.
(c) That he can never return to the United States because he wrote propaganda for the Nazis.
(d) That the concept of statehood is absurd and there should be just one United State, not fifty.

4. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?
(a) Everything she said was a lie.
(b) She only spoke Dutch, a language the narrator does not know.
(c) She never spoke to anyone unless she had to.
(d) She was a nonstop talker.

5. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .
(a) Worked for the Nazis while also being an American spy.
(b) Joined the Nazi S.S. even though he was a Jew.
(c) Has a bad conscience about what he did during the war.
(d) Was able to stay in hiding for as long as he did.

6. After the war, how many years did the narrator live in New York?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty-five.

7. From whom did the narrator take the motorcycle?
(a) His father-in-law.
(b) George Kraft.
(c) Resi Noth.
(d) Heinz Schildknecht.

8. What sport did the narrator and Heinz Schildknecht play together?
(a) Golf.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Ping-pong.
(d) Boxing.

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

10. Andor Gutman explains that "Sonderkommando" means "special detail." What horrific "special detail" did Andor Gutman say members of the Sonderkommando had to perform?
(a) Ensure that Jewish children removed all their clothing before entering the gas chamber.
(b) Extract gold teeth from dead prisoners.
(c) Condemn persons into the gas chambers and then remove their dead bodies.
(d) Check the cesspools of the latrines to make sure no prisoners were hiding there.

11. Why did Resi remove her mittens when she was sitting in the music room?
(a) Because the mittens made her skin itch.
(b) So she could lend them to a slave woman who was working outside in the cold.
(c) Because the narrator gave her a new pair.
(d) To pet her dog.

12. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?
(a) A brownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
(b) An upscale Manhattan condo.
(c) A detached house in a working-class neighborhood in Queens.
(d) A rat-infested attic apartment in Greenwich Village.

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

14. How does the narrator get money to live on while hiding in New York?
(a) By selling chess sets he carves from wood.
(b) From the interest earned on an inheritance left to him by his parents.
(c) By writing articles for The White Christian Minuteman.
(d) By selling valuables he had stolen from Germans during the war.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?

2. The narrator say his plays were medieval romances and as political as ____________.

3. What grim task does Werner Noth ask the narrator to do?

4. What does the narrator do with his broom?

5. 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?

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