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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 notice about the air when he returns to the attic?
(a) It is clean.
(b) It is filled with dust.
(c) It smells of poisonous gas.
(d) It still smells of Resi's perfume.

2. What is George Kraft frantically searching for when he returns to the narrator's apartment?
(a) A diamond engagement ring.
(b) His corncob pipe.
(c) The phone number of someone who wants to buy his paintings.
(d) His bottle of whiskey.

3. What is the book, Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova, about?
(a) The narrator and Helga's sex life as a married couple.
(b) The working title of a play about a celebrated Nazi commandant.
(c) The lascivious thoughts of a middle-aged family man with a wild imagination.
(d) A fictional account of Giacomo Casanova's life after he married and settled down.

4. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?
(a) A nice place for a family of rats to set up housekeeping.
(b) A coffin of the young man he would never be again.
(c) A treasure chest filled with possibilities.
(d) A time capsule of life before the war.

5. For what "crime" was Stepan Bodovskov arrested, tried, and shot?
(a) Originality.
(b) Obscenity.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Plagiarism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Helga claim she located the trunk filled with many of the narrator's things?

2. What was George Kraft using as target practice in Jones' cellar?

3. What are Resi, Father Keeley, and the Black Fuehrer doing when the narrator returns from his meeting with Frank Wirtanen?

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

5. Who does the Blue Fairy Godmother say are communist agents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator suggests happened to George Kraft's pipe?

4. 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?

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

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

7. Describe Lazlo Szombathy, the man who uses the rope intended for the narrator. What had he done in his native country and after coming to America?

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

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

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

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