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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Blue Fairy Godmother's response to the narrator's concerns that his parents knew he was broadcasting Nazi propaganda?

2. Where was the narrator NOT taken after his beating?

3. What is the "booty" that the narrator and Frank Wirtanen discuss?

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

5. What does the G-man tell George Kraft to be sure to take with him to prison?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the process Howard Campbell goes through from hiding from prosecution to wanting to face punishment for his crimes.

Essay Topic 2

Some of the younger characters in the novel, such as Dr. Epstein and the narrator's Israeli-born guard, think discussing what happened in the death camps pointless or irrelevant. Discuss whether these attitudes are healthy examples of people trying to get on with their lives and not be burdened by the past or a troubling example of living in denial.

Essay Topic 3

Compare the treatment of Nazis in Mother Night to portrayals of Nazis in other works of literature, movies, or television shows (some examples: Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Sound of Music, Life is Beautiful, Hogan's Heroes, etc.). Does the novel present Nazis in a more or less favorable light than other works? Does the treatment of Nazis in Mother Night seem more or less realistic?

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