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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. How old is Resi Noth when the narrator leaves for the front lines?
(a) 10 years old.
(b) A newborn infant.
(c) 45 years old.
(d) 21 years old.

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

3. What does Heinz Schildknecht love above all else?
(a) His motorcycle.
(b) His career.
(c) His country.
(d) His wife.

4. Why did Resi remove her mittens when she was sitting in the music room?
(a) So she could lend them to a slave woman who was working outside in the cold.
(b) Because the narrator gave her a new pair.
(c) To pet her dog.
(d) Because the mittens made her skin itch.

5. What is the White Christian Minuteman?
(a) The name of a marble statue in front of a historic church.
(b) A member of a group of private citizens who patrol the U.S.'s southern border.
(c) The name of an old Boston tavern.
(d) An anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic publication.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the ways Helga made a living when she was separated from the narrator?

2. From where does Alvin Dobrowitz say the narrator's and the Blue Fairy Godmother's sign and countersign were taken?

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

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

5. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. Where and in what kind of place does the narrator live while he is in hiding?

9. Why had Father Keeley been "unfrocked"?

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

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