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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 are Resi, Father Keeley, and the Black Fuehrer doing when the narrator returns from his meeting with Frank Wirtanen?
(a) Preparing for their trip to Mexico.
(b) Playing cards.
(c) Organizing a search party.
(d) Talking to the police.

2. What is the topic of Resi's speech at the Iron Guard meeting?
(a) The importance of holding out for true love.
(b) The sacrifices her sister and parents made for the cause they believed in.
(c) Her first-hand experiences with communism.
(d) How the narrator's writings inspired her.

3. What is Helga's present to the narrator when they are reunited?
(a) The silver-hilted dagger that he had designed himself.
(b) A motorcycle just like the one he borrowed from Heinz.
(c) Her father's blue vase.
(d) His collected works of poems, stories, plays, letters, and one unpublished book.

4. What does the man in the bar say is the answer to Communism?
(a) Peace, love, and mind-altering drugs.
(b) Moral Rearmament.
(c) Nuking the Russians.
(d) Capitalism.

5. What does the narrator say is a "snaggle-toothed thought machine"?
(a) A totalitarian mind.
(b) A hate group.
(c) Communism.
(d) The G-men.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare himself and other cigarette smokers?

2. What does George Kraft do when he realized the narrator was on to his scheme?

3. What is unusual about Father Keeley's prayer at the Iron Guard meeting?

4. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?

5. As the narrator recovers in Lionel Jones' basement, what does Resi tell the narrator Jones has arranged?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the appearance of the Iron Guardsmen.

2. Describe what Stepan Bodovskov does with the narrator's writings. What is the result?

3. Describe the narrator's surroundings when he regains consciousness after being beaten.

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

5. Summarize the key points of the narrator's radio address that was played at the Iron Guard meeting.

6. Where does Helga say she found the collection of the narrator's works? What is the significance of this place?

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

8. What inspires August Krapptauer to start a youth movement and what is its key aim?

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

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

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