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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. The narrator tells Helga he wants to get a bed like their old one that . . .
(a) Was stuffed with goose down.
(b) Provided really good back support.
(c) Had a headboard like an Italian sunset.
(d) Could fold up into the wall.

2. The office where the narrator is held after he is arrested at Jones' place is located in what famous building?
(a) The World Trade Center.
(b) The Empire State Building.
(c) The Sears Tower.
(d) The Chrysler Building.

3. What is the main reason the Iron Guard boys have their mothers alter their suits instead of going to a tailor?
(a) Most tailors (according to Jones) are Jews.
(b) The families cannot afford tailors.
(c) It is the only way women are allowed to participate in the group.
(d) The group has a strong "do-it-yourself" ethic.

4. What do the narrator and Resi find drawn in blue ink on his mailbox namecard?
(a) A Star of David.
(b) The symbol of a local street gang marking its turf.
(c) A crude drawing of a man smoking a cigar.
(d) A swastika.

5. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?
(a) The black knight steals it.
(b) The maiden and the knight have impure thoughts.
(c) The maiden secretly hides it in the Ark of the Covenant.
(d) Christ appears to the maiden and claims it as his rightful possession.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in the bar say is the answer to Communism?

2. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?

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

4. What does the narrator say is a "snaggle-toothed thought machine"?

5. When the narrator asks Adolf Eichmann if he felt that he was guilty of murdering six million Jews, Eichmann replies:

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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