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

Multiple Choice Questions

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(a) His collected works of poems, stories, plays, letters, and one unpublished book.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

2. What was the subject of a note Eichmann sends to the narrator when they are both in jail?
(a) If saying he's sorry will cause the jury to go easy on him.
(b) Whether the narrator has any stock in the company that made Cyklon-B.
(c) If the narrator thinks he's a bad person.
(d) Whether having a literary agent is necessary.

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

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

5. If someone wished to purchase a copy of Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova with color illustrations, how much extra would it cost?
(a) Forty rubles.
(b) Forty dollars.
(c) Five pounds Sterling.
(d) Seventy-five Deutschmarks.

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

7. Who does the Blue Fairy Godmother say are communist agents?
(a) Resi Noth and George Kraft.
(b) Lionel Jones and Father Keeley.
(c) Himself and the narrator.
(d) Dr. Epstein and his mother.

8. 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) Rio de Janeiro.
(b) Ho Chi Minh City.
(c) Johannesburg.
(d) Mexico City.

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

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

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

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

13. To what does the narrator compare himself and other cigarette smokers?
(a) Lightning bugs.
(b) Pre-cancerous growths.
(c) Babies with pacifiers.
(d) Walking chimneys.

14. 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) The group has a strong "do-it-yourself" ethic.
(c) It is the only way women are allowed to participate in the group.
(d) The families cannot afford tailors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The office where the narrator is held after he is arrested at Jones' place is located in what famous building?

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

3. How did the narrator and Helga feel after their homes had been bombed, at least for a moment?

4. Which actor does the G-man say should play the role of George Kraft in a movie?

5. What had been the garbage man's profession before coming to America?

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