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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 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.

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

3. 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) Mexico City.
(c) Johannesburg.
(d) Ho Chi Minh City.

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

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

6. What is in the capsule that Resi put in her mouth?
(a) A microchip.
(b) Cyanide.
(c) Aspirin.
(d) A 2-karat diamond.

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

8. 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 having a literary agent is necessary.
(c) Whether the narrator has any stock in the company that made Cyklon-B.
(d) If the narrator thinks he's a bad person.

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

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

11. 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.

12. 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) The families cannot afford tailors.
(d) It is the only way women are allowed to participate in the group.

13. What is "Dat Old Golden Rule"?
(a) The title of a racist play.
(b) The most important rule that the Iron Guardsmen must obey.
(c) The Golden Rule the way Black Fuehrer says it.
(d) A song the narrator hears on the radio.

14. What interesting fact does Frank Wirtanen tell the narrator about the people who fed him information for the radio broadcasts?
(a) They were all women.
(b) They were all high school students.
(c) They all survived the war.
(d) They were all Jewish.

15. After his conversation with Eichmann, what does the narrator decide is not such a good defense after all?
(a) All is fair in love and war.
(b) He didn't know people were actually dying as a result of his work.
(c) He had been completely brainwashed by the German government.
(d) He was just a soldier following orders.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Private Irving Buchanon?

3. What does the narrator notice about the air when he returns to the attic?

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

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

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