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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) Alec Leamas' sister and employee.
(b) Karl Riemeck's girlfriend and employee.
(c) An average citizen.
(d) Alec Leamas' friend.

2. Why does Leamas stop showing up for work at the library?
(a) It's not part of his mission.
(b) He quit.
(c) He got in a big fight with Miss Crail.
(d) He is very ill.

3. What does Leamas think when he first sees Pitt?
(a) That he's a fraud.
(b) That he looks familiar.
(c) That he's trying to steal from him.
(d) That he might be a friend of his mother.

4. Leamas is:
(a) An older man.
(b) None of the above.
(c) A twin.
(d) A very young man.

5. Who are the British allied with?
(a) West Germany.
(b) East German.
(c) Both West and East Germany.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character does Leamas also meet once he is released from prison?

2. What happens to Karl in the first chapter?

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

4. What does Leamas do to the grocer when he refuses Leamas' request?

5. Who is Pitt?

(see the answer key)

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