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

2. Which country did Robert, the limousine driver, support during the war?
(a) Japan.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

3. 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) Spend entire weekends together.
(d) Give up smoking.

4. How does Mr. Noth die?
(a) In a death camp.
(b) Hanged by slave laborers.
(c) Murdered by the assistant chief of police who wanted his job.
(d) Burned to death when his house is bombed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What unique symbol is on Campbell's typewriter given to him in the Jerusalem prison?

2. What made Lionel Jones a wealthy man?

3. Which of the following is NOT a symbol that the narrator had drawn in the dust of his windowpanes:

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Helga presumed to be dead?

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

5. Why had Father Keeley been "unfrocked"?

6. What is Abraham Epstein's mother hoping to prove when she speaks to the narrator in German?

7. How and where does the narrator learn the lurid details of his father-in-law's death and what does the narrator find troubling about the article, besides the fact that it is about the death of someone he knows?

8. Describe the narrator's and Helga's careers before the war begins, and how do they support each other in their careers?

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

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

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