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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprising revelation does Helga give the narrator after their first night back together?
(a) She has come to serve him with divorce papers.
(b) She is there to spy on him.
(c) Their seventeen-year-old son is waiting in a nearby coffee shop.
(d) She is not Helga at all; she is actually Resi.

2. The narrator compares the way "big Nazis" dance to what fictional character?
(a) Winnie the Pooh.
(b) Betty Boop.
(c) Mickey Mouse.
(d) Donald Duck.

3. According to the narrator, what is the only part of a pig that is not used at the Chicago Stockyards?
(a) The tail.
(b) The squeal.
(c) The brain.
(d) The hooves.

4. What do the narrator and Resi find drawn in blue ink on his mailbox namecard?
(a) A crude drawing of a man smoking a cigar.
(b) A swastika.
(c) A Star of David.
(d) The symbol of a local street gang marking its turf.

5. What is "Dat Old Golden Rule"?
(a) The title of a racist play.
(b) The Golden Rule the way Black Fuehrer says it.
(c) The most important rule that the Iron Guardsmen must obey.
(d) A song the narrator hears on the radio.

6. The narrator tells Helga he wants to get a bed like their old one that . . .
(a) Could fold up into the wall.
(b) Provided really good back support.
(c) Had a headboard like an Italian sunset.
(d) Was stuffed with goose down.

7. What does the narrator call Werner von Braun?
(a) The Thomas Jefferson of the Space Age.
(b) An Albert Einstein wannabe.
(c) The Abraham Lincoln of Physics.
(d) The George Washington of Science.

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

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

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

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

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

13. In a note, what does the garbage collector, Lazlo Szombathy, claim he knew how to do?
(a) Cure cancer.
(b) Play golf.
(c) Speak Japanese.
(d) Bring about world peace.

14. After the raid and being released from arrest, with whom does the narrator have a conversation as he is entering his building?
(a) A patrolman.
(b) Ralph.
(c) The Blue Fairy Godmother.
(d) Dr. Epstein.

15. What does the man in the bar say is the answer to Communism?
(a) Peace, love, and mind-altering drugs.
(b) Moral Rearmament.
(c) Nuking the Russians.
(d) Capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the narrator kept under arrest after the raid?

2. What does George Kraft do when he realized the narrator was on to his scheme?

3. Who does the Blue Fairy Godmother say are communist agents?

4. What was unique about Arndt Klopfer's photography?

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

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