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

2. Bernard Mengel, who guards the narrator at night, tells the narrator he does what in his sleep?
(a) Says the names of two women and talks about a city.
(b) Sleepwalks.
(c) Snores and grinds his teeth.
(d) Cries.

3. What is the reason the magazine article states that the slave laborers hanged Werner Noth?
(a) For the satisfaction of hanging someone important.
(b) Because the Russians ordered them to do it.
(c) As just desserts for all the hangings he had ordered as chief of police.
(d) Because of the severe beating he gave the woman who dropped a vase.

4. What did the narrator receive in the mail after his address was published in the Minuteman?
(a) A notice from the IRS for unpaid taxes.
(b) A lot of mail from supporters.
(c) A letter from Helga.
(d) A lot of hate mail.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which description does NOT apply to Lionel Jones?

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

3. What is the war crime that Howard Campbell stands accused of?

4. In what year does Howard Campbell write his story?

5. Friedmann is the director of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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