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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During the raid, Lionel Jones denounces several groups of people. The G-man declares he is a member of one of the groups. Which one?
(a) Unitarians.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Mormons.
(d) Jews.

3. According to Wirtanen, who are the only three people who knew the truth about the narrator's radio broadcasts?
(a) Frank Wirtanen, General Donovan, and Franklin Delano "Rosenfeld."
(b) Helga, Resi, and Heinz.
(c) Howard Campbell and his parents.
(d) Lionel Jones, George Kraft, and Father Keeley.

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

5. What is George Kraft frantically searching for when he returns to the narrator's apartment?
(a) His bottle of whiskey.
(b) His corncob pipe.
(c) A diamond engagement ring.
(d) The phone number of someone who wants to buy his paintings.

6. 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 still smells of Resi's perfume.
(d) It smells of poisonous gas.

7. What was Lionel Jones' chauffeur's nickname?
(a) The Bed-Stuy Mussolini.
(b) The Tojo of Soho.
(c) The Hitler of Hackensack.
(d) The Black Fuehrer of Harlem.

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

9. What was George Kraft using as target practice in Jones' cellar?
(a) A portrait of President Kennedy.
(b) The black beetles that crawled on the floor and walls.
(c) Beer bottles.
(d) A racist caricature of a Jewish man.

10. What was the title of a play about a young maiden and a knight who guard the Holy Grail?
(a) Charley's Aunt.
(b) Sir Gowan.
(c) The Goblet.
(d) Grail Quest.

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

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 does the narrator say is a "snaggle-toothed thought machine"?
(a) A totalitarian mind.
(b) Communism.
(c) A hate group.
(d) The G-men.

14. When the narrator asks Adolf Eichmann if he felt that he was guilty of murdering six million Jews, Eichmann replies:
(a) Absolutely not.
(b) Jews aren't people, so it wasn't exactly murder.
(c) They had it coming.
(d) You are as guilty as I am.

15. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?
(a) The maiden and the knight have impure thoughts.
(b) The black knight steals it.
(c) Christ appears to the maiden and claims it as his rightful possession.
(d) The maiden secretly hides it in the Ark of the Covenant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in the bar say is the answer to Communism?

2. What is the Blue Fairy Godmother's response to the narrator's concerns that his parents knew he was broadcasting Nazi propaganda?

3. Regarding Stepan Bodovskov's finding of the narrator's trunk, Frank Wirtanen says he had a trunkful of . . .

4. What is "Dat Old Golden Rule"?

5. What special ceremony is planned at the weekly meeting of the Iron Guard of the White Sons of the Constitution?

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