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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the G-man tell George Kraft to be sure to take with him to prison?
(a) His paintbox.
(b) A pen and paper to write his story.
(c) Plenty to read.
(d) A cake with a file in it.

2. What does the narrator notice about the air when he returns to the attic?
(a) It is filled with dust.
(b) It is clean.
(c) It smells of poisonous gas.
(d) It still smells of Resi's perfume.

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

4. What is Helga's present to the narrator when they are reunited?
(a) The silver-hilted dagger that he had designed himself.
(b) His collected works of poems, stories, plays, letters, and one unpublished book.
(c) A motorcycle just like the one he borrowed from Heinz.
(d) Her father's blue vase.

5. What does George Kraft do when he realized the narrator was on to his scheme?
(a) Takes Resi hostage.
(b) Runs away.
(c) Reaches for his pistol.
(d) Calls the narrator a liar.

6. Why does Wirtanen say he cannot trust the narrator?
(a) His recent involvement with Jones' hate group showed a serious lack of judgment.
(b) Anyone who would sleep with his dead wife's sister could not be trusted.
(c) He was too good a spy.
(d) He betrayed both the U.S. and Germany.

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

8. What does the patrolman say has the potential to end crime, war, divorce, child abuse, and several other social ills?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Extraterrestrial beings.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Religion.

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

10. What snide remark does Resi make as she watches drum majorettes pass by in a parade?
(a) That half of the girls will end up pregnant before they graduate.
(b) That Americans must find war a very sexy thing.
(c) That it's not as good as being a cheerleader.
(d) That being able to do high kicks and twirl batons will help the girls be successful in life.

11. What does Wirtanen tell the narrator that George Kraft had planned to do to him?
(a) Steal Resi from him.
(b) Kill him and tell the media the job was done by Israeli assassins.
(c) Leave him all his worldly possessions.
(d) Kidnap him from Mexico and take him to Russia.

12. Which of the following is NOT a place the narrator met with the Blue Fairy Godmother?
(a) In a dining hall in Wiesbaden.
(b) In his New York apartment.
(c) A vacant shop across the street from Lionel Jones' house.
(d) On a park bench in the Tiergarten in Berlin.

13. What are Resi, Father Keeley, and the Black Fuehrer doing when the narrator returns from his meeting with Frank Wirtanen?
(a) Talking to the police.
(b) Playing cards.
(c) Organizing a search party.
(d) Preparing for their trip to Mexico.

14. 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.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Helga claim she located the trunk filled with many of the narrator's things?

2. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?

3. How do the schoolteacher's children behave in the bomb shelter?

4. To the narrator, the imaginary lines of international borders are as unreal as . . .

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

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