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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 interesting fact does Frank Wirtanen tell the narrator about the people who fed him information for the radio broadcasts?
(a) They were all women.
(b) They all survived the war.
(c) They were all Jewish.
(d) They were all high school students.

2. According to the narrator, what is the only part of a pig that is not used at the Chicago Stockyards?
(a) The hooves.
(b) The brain.
(c) The squeal.
(d) The tail.

3. How do the schoolteacher's children behave in the bomb shelter?
(a) They laugh thinking it's all part of a big game.
(b) They cry hysterically.
(c) They scream at their father.
(d) They never bat an eye.

4. What is George Kraft frantically searching for when he returns to the narrator's apartment?
(a) The phone number of someone who wants to buy his paintings.
(b) His corncob pipe.
(c) His bottle of whiskey.
(d) A diamond engagement ring.

5. Regarding Stepan Bodovskov's finding of the narrator's trunk, Frank Wirtanen says he had a trunkful of . . .
(a) Trouble.
(b) Genius.
(c) The worst writing ever to come out of Germany.
(d) Instant career.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator is upset when he finds out that Armistice Day had been changed to . . .

2. From whom does the narrator receive a note during the Iron Guard meeting and what does it say?

3. Why does Wirtanen say he cannot trust the narrator?

4. What does Lionel Jones claim his organization is doing that the G-man is not?

5. What was unique about Arndt Klopfer's photography?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova and why did the narrator not want it to be published?

2. Describe what happened to the narrator after being beaten and knocked unconscious.

3. How did the narrator meet Werner von Braun and what detail does he recall from that meeting?

4. Describe the encounter at the mailboxes with the unnamed man with the shopping bag.

5. How does Resi Noth die and what is the reason?

6. Describe the scene at Jones' house after the narrator returns from his meeting with the Blue Fairy Godmother.

7. Describe the appearance of the Iron Guardsmen.

8. Why does George Kraft say he wants to start a new life with the narrator and Resi?

9. What does the narrator tell Frank Wirtanen that he may have done with his life if Germany had won the war?

10. When the narrator returns to his ransacked attic home, what does it remind him of?

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