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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. If someone wished to purchase a copy of Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova with color illustrations, how much extra would it cost?
(a) Forty rubles.
(b) Seventy-five Deutschmarks.
(c) Forty dollars.
(d) Five pounds Sterling.

2. What does Lionel Jones claim his organization is doing that the G-man is not?
(a) Obeying the Constitution.
(b) Living in peace and harmony with everyone.
(c) Serving God.
(d) Protecting the Republic.

3. What does the patrolman say has the potential to end crime, war, divorce, child abuse, and several other social ills?
(a) Religion.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Chemicals.
(d) Extraterrestrial beings.

4. What does the schoolteacher in the bomb shelter do to silence his hysterical wife?
(a) Sings to her.
(b) Puts his socks on his hands and puts on a puppet show.
(c) Gets her to drink some vodka.
(d) Knocks her out.

5. What does the narrator mean when he says, "alles kaput"?
(a) His gun misfires and he knows it will never work again.
(b) When he is arrested and knows he will be turned over to Israeli agents.
(c) Wirtanen's revelation has wiped away his illusions of a friend, a mistress, and a dream.
(d) His reaction when he returns to his home to find it completely ransacked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the topic of Resi's speech at the Iron Guard meeting?

2. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?

3. After the raid and being released from arrest, with whom does the narrator have a conversation as he is entering his building?

4. Who was Private Irving Buchanon?

5. What is Helga's present to the narrator when they are reunited?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the offensive drawing that Kraft uses for target practice. Why does the narrator say he drew the "ludicrous" cartoon, and what does he himself think about it?

4. What is the plot of "The Goblet"?

5. Describe the encounter between Werner von Braun and the narrator when they meet in New York?

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

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

8. Describe the appearance of the Iron Guardsmen.

9. Why does the narrator say he "froze" after he is released after the raid?

10. The patrolman the narrator meets outside his home is fascinated with the effects chemicals have on human behavior. What does the patrolman say are ways that chemicals affect human behavior and what are some examples he cites?

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