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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing that Heinz was willing to do for his motorcycle that he was not willing to do for his wife?
(a) Stand in front of an advancing tank.
(b) Buy expensive accessories.
(c) Give up smoking.
(d) Spend entire weekends together.

2. What is the surprise that Rev. Jones and his entourage present to the narrator?
(a) A woman who appears to be his wife.
(b) The FBI.
(c) A pair of Broadway producers who want to produce his play about Nazi Germany.
(d) Israeli agents.

3. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?
(a) Escape from Europe when they had the chance.
(b) Fight back.
(c) Convert to Christianity.
(d) Help settle the new nation of Israel.

4. What is the White Christian Minuteman?
(a) A member of a group of private citizens who patrol the U.S.'s southern border.
(b) An anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic publication.
(c) The name of a marble statue in front of a historic church.
(d) The name of an old Boston tavern.

5. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?
(a) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.
(b) A picture history of the First World War.
(c) A print of Picasso's Guernica.
(d) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?

2. When they are reunited, what does Helga say she will do if the narrator has no room for her in his life?

3. Where was the narrator born?

4. Comparing himself to Lionel Jones, the narrator insists that he is neither __________ nor __________.

5. How does Bernard O'Hare, who had captured the narrator in Germany, get the narrator's address?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Lionel Jones sent to prison (before he became acquainted with the narrator), and based on what evidence?

2. Explain why the narrator thinks Helga is "amazingly well-preserved."

3. Describe Heinz Schildknecht's wife as the narrator portrays her. Why does he not like her?

4. What is Arpad Kovacs response when he reads the contents of one of Campbell's radio broadcasts?

5. What is the significance of the leather strap that Bernard Mengel mentions?

6. What reason does Andor Gutman give for thinking that the position of "corpse-carrier" would be a good job?

7. How does the narrator describe The White Christian Minuteman and what is his reaction to it arriving in his mailbox?

8. How does information regarding the narrator's whereabouts end up in The White Christian Minuteman?

9. Of what does the Haifa Institute consider Heinz Schildknecht to be an expert and why?

10. Why is Helga presumed to be dead?

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