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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To the narrator, the imaginary lines of international borders are as unreal as . . .
(a) Elvis and the Beatles.
(b) Elves and pixies.
(c) UFOs and space aliens.
(d) Sasquatch and Yeti.

2. What is the main reason the Iron Guard boys have their mothers alter their suits instead of going to a tailor?
(a) Most tailors (according to Jones) are Jews.
(b) It is the only way women are allowed to participate in the group.
(c) The group has a strong "do-it-yourself" ethic.
(d) The families cannot afford tailors.

3. What does the narrator mean when he says, "alles kaput"?
(a) When he is arrested and knows he will be turned over to Israeli agents.
(b) His gun misfires and he knows it will never work again.
(c) His reaction when he returns to his home to find it completely ransacked.
(d) Wirtanen's revelation has wiped away his illusions of a friend, a mistress, and a dream.

4. What does the patrolman tell the narrator that chemicals had caused a woman living nearby to do?
(a) Kill her own baby.
(b) Kill her husband.
(c) Intentionally ram her car into someone else's.
(d) Set her apartment on fire.

5. As the narrator recovers in Lionel Jones' basement, what does Resi tell the narrator Jones has arranged?
(a) To have the narrator surrender himself to Israeli authorities in hopes they will grant him leniency.
(b) For them to leave the country when he is well enough to travel.
(c) For everyone in the group to commit mass suicide.
(d) For Father Keeley to marry them that afternoon.

6. What does the schoolteacher in the bomb shelter do to silence his hysterical wife?
(a) Knocks her out.
(b) Sings to her.
(c) Puts his socks on his hands and puts on a puppet show.
(d) Gets her to drink some vodka.

7. What does George Kraft think new surroundings and new identities would inspire him and the narrator to do?
(a) Find beautiful women to marry and finally start families.
(b) Find a wreck of a boat and restore it, then sail around the world.
(c) Open a bar near a beach.
(d) Be creative: the narrator to write again and Kraft to paint better.

8. Where was the narrator NOT taken after his beating?
(a) Lionel Jones' cellar.
(b) Abraham Epstein's apartment.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The police station.

9. What does Jones' chauffeur says always works even though most other things do not?
(a) Timex watches.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) A black man.
(d) Love.

10. What was unique about Arndt Klopfer's photography?
(a) The photos appear to have a 3-D effect in certain light.
(b) Everyone appears to have a halo.
(c) He is the only German photographer at the time to use color film.
(d) Everyone looks 10-15 years younger.

11. What is the misleading title of chapter 23?
(a) Chapter Six Hundred and Forty-three.
(b) Nothing Interesting Happens after This.
(c) The Last Chapter.
(d) Chapter One.

12. What is the general public response after newspapers begin to publish articles about Howard Campbell?
(a) Anger, outrage, and calls for swift justice.
(b) Fear that the situation could strain relations with other countries.
(c) Support because Campbell followed his convictions, even though they were unpopular.
(d) Nobody cares anymore because the war happened so long ago.

13. Where does Helga claim she located the trunk filled with many of the narrator's things?
(a) In a secret closet in their old apartment that the new tenants had not discovered.
(b) At the Berlin theatre where she and the narrator had worked.
(c) From a drop site in a park where a note from the Blue Fairy Godmother said it would be.
(d) In the bombed-out ruins of her father's house.

14. Who was Private Irving Buchanon?
(a) The American Legion Post member who writes the narrator an angry letter.
(b) A member of Jones' entourage.
(c) The best friend of the man who beats up the narrator.
(d) The soldier who captured the narrator in Germany.

15. For what "crime" was Stepan Bodovskov arrested, tried, and shot?
(a) Originality.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Plagiarism.
(d) Obscenity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the actual destination that Lionel Jones arranges for the narrator and the others to go as soon as the narrator is well enough to travel?

2. What is Helga's present to the narrator when they are reunited?

3. What "gift" does Frank Wirtanen say that the narrator and George Kraft have in common?

4. From whom does the narrator receive a note during the Iron Guard meeting and what does it say?

5. What does Lionel Jones claim his organization is doing that the G-man is not?

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