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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 the "Last Full Measure" to which the narrator refers?
(a) The last time the crematories at Auschwitz were emptied of bodies before Allied forces freed the camp.
(b) A musical measure in an opera written in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels.
(c) The last train full of Jewish prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz.
(d) The working title of a play commemorating the German soldiers who died putting down the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.

2. Which description does NOT apply to Lionel Jones?
(a) Radio talk show host.
(b) Failed dental student.
(c) Owner of a fake divinity school.
(d) Inventor.

3. Which description best fits the narrator's New York home?
(a) A brownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
(b) A rat-infested attic apartment in Greenwich Village.
(c) An upscale Manhattan condo.
(d) A detached house in a working-class neighborhood in Queens.

4. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?
(a) Her hair had become snowy white.
(b) She had gained a lot of weight.
(c) She was blind.
(d) She suffered from dementia and did not know who he was.

5. How are Resi and Helga related?
(a) They are brother and sister.
(b) They are sisters.
(c) They are mother and daughter.
(d) They are not related; Resi uses Helga's family name to trick the narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare Resi's dog?

2. How did the narrator say he ended up in Germany?

3. What is the White Christian Minuteman?

4. The narrator claims he didn't really steal his friend's motorcycle, but . . .

5. What fact does the narrator never reveal to his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Briefly explain the "Nation of Two" the narrator frequently mentions. What is its original meaning and what does it signify to the narrator personally?

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

4. Describe Resi's reaction to the news that her dog must be killed.

5. What effect does the narrator's broadcast have on Werner Noth?

6. Describe the narrator's lifestyle while he is in hiding. How does he live and from where does he get his income?

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

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

9. What does Robert Wilson, the Black Fuehrer of Harlem, mean when he says that he and the narrator were on "opposite" sides? Provide some explanation as to why Wilson chose the side he did.

10. In chapter one, where is the narrator? Why is he there and what is he doing?

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