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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was unique about Arndt Klopfer's photography?
(a) Everyone looks 10-15 years younger.
(b) Everyone appears to have a halo.
(c) The photos appear to have a 3-D effect in certain light.
(d) He is the only German photographer at the time to use color film.

5. What is the Blue Fairy Godmother's response to the narrator's concerns that his parents knew he was broadcasting Nazi propaganda?
(a) They received a call from President Roosevelt explaining the situation, but were sworn to secrecy.
(b) The mission was more important than the peace of mind of two old people.
(c) They were both too senile to really understand what was happening.
(d) His parents were secretly pro-Nazi and were very proud of their son.

6. What is one detail of Resi's post-war life that is true?
(a) She was an interpreter in a Siberian prison camp.
(b) She worked various odd jobs on her way back to Berlin.
(c) She was briefly married to Heinz Schildknecht in hopes that he could put her in touch with the narrator.
(d) She worked in a cigarette factory.

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

8. What becomes of the rope that was given to the narrator?
(a) Dr. Epstein uses it to make a tourniquet on the narrator's injured leg to keep him from bleeding to death.
(b) The narrator uses it to tie their new mattress to the top of a car.
(c) Resi uses it to tie up the narrator's attacker until the police arrive.
(d) A garbage collector uses it to commit suicide.

9. In one of her final statements, Resi says of the narrator, "There is nothing left of him but __________ and a pair of eyes."
(a) His mouth.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Love.
(d) Anger.

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

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

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

13. What "gift" does Frank Wirtanen say that the narrator and George Kraft have in common?
(a) They can be many things at once and all sincerely.
(b) They are creative.
(c) The things they did during the war don't bother them now.
(d) They can live in any country anywhere and it would not matter because one place is as good as another.

14. What is the surprise Lionel Jones presents to the narrator at the Iron Guard meeting?
(a) $200,000 in cash and phony identity documents to start a new life.
(b) An anthology of his plays, printed, bound, and ready to sell.
(c) The Blue Fairy Godmother.
(d) A recording of one of his radio broadcasts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Helga's present to the narrator when they are reunited?

2. What does the narrator mean when he says, "alles kaput"?

3. What is one of the first things the narrator says after he wakes up from the beating?

4. When the narrator asks Adolf Eichmann if he felt that he was guilty of murdering six million Jews, Eichmann replies:

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

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