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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 does Helga say is the reason she did not get in touch with the narrator when she learned of his whereabouts?
(a) Her sister had lied to her and said that he wouldn't be interested in seeing her.
(b) She did not have enough money to send a telegram or even buy a stamp for a letter.
(c) She had taken another lover by then and did not want to hurt him.
(d) She had hoped the narrator had built a new life.

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

3. From whom did the narrator take the motorcycle?
(a) Heinz Schildknecht.
(b) His father-in-law.
(c) Resi Noth.
(d) George Kraft.

4. Of what did the narrator have twenty-six copies?
(a) Hitler's Mein Kampf.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" album.
(d) The White Christian Minuteman.

5. When the narrator does not want to discuss politics when they are alone in his apartment, what does he ask Helga to ask him about instead?
(a) Art.
(b) Music.
(c) Literature.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?

2. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?

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

4. Which characteristic does NOT describe Howard W. Campbell, Jr.'s father?

5. Arpad Kovacs says he joined the Nazi S.S. The S.S. is famous for being what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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