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

2. What does the narrator do with his broom?
(a) Hits an attacker over the head with it.
(b) Carves the handle with his wood-carving set.
(c) Offers to sweep the hallways of his building in exchange for rent.
(d) Gives it to his neighbor's daughter who wanted to dress as a witch for Halloween.

3. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?
(a) His mother's obstetrics book from nursing school.
(b) A stack of pornographic magazines in his father's garage.
(c) A picture history of the First World War.
(d) A print of Picasso's Guernica.

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

5. Why did the narrator and his mother begin to avoid each other?
(a) Because the narrator looked too much like his father, who had left her for a younger woman.
(b) Because of her bizarre behavior.
(c) Because of their differing views of the war.
(d) Because his mother did not like Helga.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sport did the narrator and Heinz Schildknecht play together?

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

3. What is the narrator's "little Eden"?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Helga presumed to be dead?

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

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

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

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

6. What is Goebbels' response to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

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

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

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

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

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