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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the narrator is recovering from the beating, where does George Kraft speculate that he, Resi, and the narrator would go?
(a) Australia.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Alaska.
(d) The tropics.

3. What does Lionel Jones claim his organization is doing that the G-man is not?
(a) Protecting the Republic.
(b) Living in peace and harmony with everyone.
(c) Obeying the Constitution.
(d) Serving God.

4. The office where the narrator is held after he is arrested at Jones' place is located in what famous building?
(a) The Sears Tower.
(b) The World Trade Center.
(c) The Empire State Building.
(d) The Chrysler Building.

5. What is the surprise Lionel Jones presents to the narrator at the Iron Guard meeting?
(a) An anthology of his plays, printed, bound, and ready to sell.
(b) $200,000 in cash and phony identity documents to start a new life.
(c) The Blue Fairy Godmother.
(d) A recording of one of his radio broadcasts.

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

7. 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?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Ho Chi Minh City.
(d) Rio de Janeiro.

8. Which actor does the G-man say should play the role of George Kraft in a movie?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Jerry Lewis.
(c) Charlie Chaplin.
(d) Clark Gable.

9. 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) From a drop site in a park where a note from the Blue Fairy Godmother said it would be.
(c) In the bombed-out ruins of her father's house.
(d) At the Berlin theatre where she and the narrator had worked.

10. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?
(a) A coffin of the young man he would never be again.
(b) A time capsule of life before the war.
(c) A nice place for a family of rats to set up housekeeping.
(d) A treasure chest filled with possibilities.

11. From whom does the narrator receive a note during the Iron Guard meeting and what does it say?
(a) From Helga, saying she really is alive and that she can never forgive her sister for betraying her.
(b) From the man who beat him up at the mailboxes, who says he plans to finish the job after the meeting.
(c) From his attorney, who says the court will be lenient if he turns himself in now and pleads guilty.
(d) From the Blue Fairy Godmother saying that the narrator's life is in danger.

12. What does Wirtanen think the Russians would do to get the narrator to cooperate?
(a) Threaten to kill Resi.
(b) Threaten to kill him.
(c) Torture him.
(d) Threaten to nuke the U.S.

13. After his conversation with Eichmann, what does the narrator decide is not such a good defense after all?
(a) He was just a soldier following orders.
(b) He had been completely brainwashed by the German government.
(c) All is fair in love and war.
(d) He didn't know people were actually dying as a result of his work.

14. What is one of the first things the narrator says after he wakes up from the beating?
(a) I gotta stop drinking.
(b) Did somebody get the number of the bus that ran over me?
(c) (To Resi) Who are you?
(d) I've joined the Hottentots!

15. What is the book, Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova, about?
(a) A fictional account of Giacomo Casanova's life after he married and settled down.
(b) The working title of a play about a celebrated Nazi commandant.
(c) The narrator and Helga's sex life as a married couple.
(d) The lascivious thoughts of a middle-aged family man with a wild imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare himself and other cigarette smokers?

2. What was the subject of a note Eichmann sends to the narrator when they are both in jail?

3. In a note, what does the garbage collector, Lazlo Szombathy, claim he knew how to do?

4. What becomes of the rope that was given to the narrator?

5. If someone wished to purchase a copy of Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova with color illustrations, how much extra would it cost?

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