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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 Wirtanen think the Russians would do to get the narrator to cooperate?
(a) Threaten to nuke the U.S.
(b) Threaten to kill him.
(c) Threaten to kill Resi.
(d) Torture him.

2. What characteristics do all the guardsmen at Krapptauer's memorial have in common?
(a) They are all senior citizens.
(b) They are all left-handed.
(c) They are all wearing sweatshirts from Ivy League schools.
(d) They are all blond and over six feet tall.

3. During the raid, Lionel Jones denounces several groups of people. The G-man declares he is a member of one of the groups. Which one?
(a) Catholics.
(b) Jews.
(c) Unitarians.
(d) Mormons.

4. Which actor does the G-man say should play the role of George Kraft in a movie?
(a) Clark Gable.
(b) Charlie Chaplin.
(c) Jerry Lewis.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

5. What "gift" does Frank Wirtanen say that the narrator and George Kraft have in common?
(a) The things they did during the war don't bother them now.
(b) They are creative.
(c) They can live in any country anywhere and it would not matter because one place is as good as another.
(d) They can be many things at once and all sincerely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call Werner von Braun?

2. What interesting fact does Frank Wirtanen tell the narrator about the people who fed him information for the radio broadcasts?

3. 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?

4. What is the surprise Lionel Jones presents to the narrator at the Iron Guard meeting?

5. What is the book, Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova, about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the planned escape to Mexico. Who was involved and how?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. According to Frank Wirtanen, why do the Russians want to get their hands on the narrator?

10. What is Resi's explanation for tricking the narrator into thinking she is her dead sister?

(see the answer keys)

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