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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what did the narrator have twenty-six copies?
(a) Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" album.
(b) Hitler's Mein Kampf.
(c) The White Christian Minuteman.
(d) The Bible.

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

3. What prized possession does Werner Noth fear a slave woman will destroy due to carelessness?
(a) A grandfather clock.
(b) A Gutenberg Bible.
(c) A blue vase.
(d) A Rembrandt painting.

4. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?
(a) Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech.
(b) Christ's Sermon on the Mount.
(c) His own "Do you want total war?" speech.
(d) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

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

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

7. Arpad Kovacs was personally congratulated by __________, whom he would have killed had he known how important he was.
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Adolph Eichmann.
(c) General George S. Patton.
(d) Adolph Hitler.

8. Friedmann is the director of what?
(a) The Nazi S.S.
(b) The Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(c) The Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.
(d) The prison where Campbell is incarcerated.

9. To what does the narrator compare Resi's dog?
(a) A pig.
(b) An amphibian.
(c) A human.
(d) A rat.

10. When the narrator does not want to discuss politics when they are alone in his apartment, what does he ask Helga to ask him about instead?
(a) Music.
(b) Art.
(c) Literature.
(d) Religion.

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

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

13. 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.

14. Who was Rudolph Franz Hoess?
(a) Howard Campbell's defense attorney.
(b) The Nazi Minister of Propaganda.
(c) The director of the Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(d) The Commandant of Auschwitz.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator receive in the mail after his address was published in the Minuteman?

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

3. Which country did Robert, the limousine driver, support during the war?

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

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

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