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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. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?
(a) Because of their differing views of the war.
(b) Because of her bizarre behavior.
(c) Because the narrator looked too much like his father, who had left her for a younger woman.
(d) Because his mother did not like Helga.

2. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?
(a) The American Pledge of Allegiance.
(b) The Boy Scout motto.
(c) A song from the Brownies girls' club.
(d) The Serenity Prayer.

3. The narrator is a native of which country?
(a) Israel.
(b) Germany.
(c) Hungary.
(d) The United States.

4. Where was the narrator born?
(a) New York City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Schenectady, New York.
(d) Berlin.

5. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?
(a) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
(b) Christ's Sermon on the Mount.
(c) His own "Do you want total war?" speech.
(d) Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what did the narrator have twenty-six copies?

2. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .

3. What is the surprise that Rev. Jones and his entourage present to the narrator?

4. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?

5. Who was Rudolph Franz Hoess?

Short Essay Questions

1. What frequently occurs in the little park outside the narrator's window that would often get his attention, and what is the significance of this?

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

3. What is Goebbels' response to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

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

5. Why is Helga presumed to be dead?

6. Describe the Western Hemisphere University of the Bible. What kind of courses were taught and how could one earn a degree there?

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

8. Describe the Free American Corps. What was its purpose and how successful was it?

9. What is the gist of Bernard O'Hare's letter to the narrator?

10. Describe the narrator's mother and what is the "queer demonstration" she gives?

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