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

2. How did the narrator and Helga feel after their homes had been bombed, at least for a moment?
(a) Like Noah and his wife.
(b) Like there was no more reason to live.
(c) Like Adam and Eve.
(d) Like Romeo and Juliet.

3. Where does Helga claim she located the trunk filled with many of the narrator's things?
(a) In the bombed-out ruins of her father's house.
(b) From a drop site in a park where a note from the Blue Fairy Godmother said it would be.
(c) In a secret closet in their old apartment that the new tenants had not discovered.
(d) At the Berlin theatre where she and the narrator had worked.

4. When the narrator asks Adolf Eichmann if he felt that he was guilty of murdering six million Jews, Eichmann replies:
(a) You are as guilty as I am.
(b) Absolutely not.
(c) They had it coming.
(d) Jews aren't people, so it wasn't exactly murder.

5. What was the title of a play about a young maiden and a knight who guard the Holy Grail?
(a) Sir Gowan.
(b) Charley's Aunt.
(c) The Goblet.
(d) Grail Quest.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Wirtanen, who are the only three people who knew the truth about the narrator's radio broadcasts?

2. What does the patrolman tell the narrator that chemicals had caused a woman living nearby to do?

3. In one of her final statements, Resi says of the narrator, "There is nothing left of him but __________ and a pair of eyes."

4. What is the actual destination that Lionel Jones arranges for the narrator and the others to go as soon as the narrator is well enough to travel?

5. What is in the capsule that Resi put in her mouth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the schoolteacher's wife's behavior in the bomb shelter. How does her husband respond?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. Describe the narrator's encounter with Adolf Eichmann in the Tel Aviv jail.

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