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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. Which directive does NOT appear on the sign that the Black Fuehrer of Harlem posts at the Iron Guard meeting?
(a) Serve your country.
(b) Get plenty of education.
(c) Keep your opinions to yourself.
(d) Keep your body clean and strong.

2. What is one of the first things the narrator says after he wakes up from the beating?
(a) (To Resi) Who are you?
(b) I've joined the Hottentots!
(c) I gotta stop drinking.
(d) Did somebody get the number of the bus that ran over me?

3. What does the man in the bar say is the answer to Communism?
(a) Peace, love, and mind-altering drugs.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Moral Rearmament.
(d) Nuking the Russians.

4. Where was the narrator NOT taken after his beating?
(a) Lionel Jones' cellar.
(b) The police station.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Abraham Epstein's apartment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare himself and other cigarette smokers?

2. How do the schoolteacher's children behave in the bomb shelter?

3. How does the narrator regard the old trunk?

4. How long is the narrator kept under arrest after the raid?

5. The office where the narrator is held after he is arrested at Jones' place is located in what famous building?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Frank Wirtanen say will happen to Jones, Keeley, the Black Fuehrer, and the Iron Guardsmen after the raid?

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the narrator's surroundings when he regains consciousness after being beaten.

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

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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