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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What had been the garbage man's profession before coming to America?
(a) He had always been a garbage man.
(b) Attorney.
(c) Veterinarian.
(d) Dentist.

4. 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) Jews.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Mormons.
(d) Unitarians.

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

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

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

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

9. What special ceremony is planned at the weekly meeting of the Iron Guard of the White Sons of the Constitution?
(a) The wedding of Resi and the narrator.
(b) A memorial service for August Krapptauer.
(c) Initiation rites for the narrator.
(d) A mock human sacrifice.

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

11. What characteristics do all the guardsmen at Krapptauer's memorial have in common?
(a) They are all left-handed.
(b) They are all blond and over six feet tall.
(c) They are all wearing sweatshirts from Ivy League schools.
(d) They are all senior citizens.

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

13. What is unusual about Father Keeley's prayer at the Iron Guard meeting?
(a) It sounds as if Keeley is "speaking in tongues."
(b) It is a Jewish Seder prayer.
(c) It is offered to Satan.
(d) At the end of each sentence in the prayer, the Black Fuehrer beats a drum.

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

15. 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 not Helga at all; she is actually Resi.
(c) She is there to spy on him.
(d) Their seventeen-year-old son is waiting in a nearby coffee shop.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which directive does NOT appear on the sign that the Black Fuehrer of Harlem posts at the Iron Guard meeting?

4. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?

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

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