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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) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Japan.

2. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .
(a) Joined the Nazi S.S. even though he was a Jew.
(b) Worked for the Nazis while also being an American spy.
(c) Was able to stay in hiding for as long as he did.
(d) Has a bad conscience about what he did during the war.

3. What does the narrator notice about Lionel Jones' hand?
(a) He always wears a glove on one, but not the other.
(b) It is soft and smooth as if Jones had never done any honest labor in his entire life.
(c) It is missing two fingers.
(d) It glitters with rings like the hand of a prince.

4. What prompted the sudden death of August Krapptauer?
(a) Carrying luggage up several flights of stairs and apparently suffering a heart attack.
(b) Swallowing a capsule of cyanide.
(c) Falling off a balcony.
(d) Stepping in front of Jones' limousine.

5. Friedmann is the director of what?
(a) The Haifa Institute for Documentation of War Criminals.
(b) The Nazi S.S.
(c) The prison where Campbell is incarcerated.
(d) The Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator first see the woman he thinks is Helga when they are reunited?

2. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?

3. The narrator is a native of which country?

4. What is the reason the magazine article states that the slave laborers hanged Werner Noth?

5. Where was the narrator born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Explain why the narrator thinks Helga is "amazingly well-preserved."

10. How does information regarding the narrator's whereabouts end up in The White Christian Minuteman?

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