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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Elvira?
(a) Karl Riemeck's girlfriend and employee.
(b) Alec Leamas' friend.
(c) Alec Leamas' sister and employee.
(d) An average citizen.

2. After publicly leaving his job in Chapter 3, what does Leamas do?
(a) Works for the Queen.
(b) Writes his autobiography.
(c) Gets married.
(d) Manages a glue factory.

3. Who does Miss Crail talk to on the phone most of the time?
(a) Leamas.
(b) Reporters.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her husband.

4. Who is Miss Crail?
(a) A secretary.
(b) An old family friend of Leamas'.
(c) A housekeeper.
(d) A librarian.

5. Leamas publicly appears to do what at everything he does after leaving his job at British intelligence in Chapter 3?
(a) None of the above.
(b) Triumph.
(c) Fail.
(d) Succeed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following jobs does Leamas also take in Chapter 3?

2. What actually does happen when Leamas meets with Control in Chapter 2?

3. What is the public perception of why Leamas left his job?

4. How does Elvira cross the German border?

5. Which of the following is the best description of Leamas' life, from the public's point of view, once he leaves British intelligence?

(see the answer key)

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