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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is this person who visits Liz while Leamas is in prison interested in knowing?
(a) About whether or not the shopkeeper is recovering.
(b) About what Leamas did to go to jail.
(c) About Liz's relationship with Leamas.
(d) About Liz's involvement with Communism.

2. After he stops working for British intelligence, where does Leamas live?
(a) In his family's home.
(b) In a retirement home.
(c) In a small, shabby apartment.
(d) Out in the country on a farm.

3. What character does Leamas also meet once he is released from prison?
(a) Miss Crail.
(b) Control.
(c) Liz Gold.
(d) His mother.

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

5. What does Leamas think about on his flight back to London after meeting with Control?
(a) His injuries.
(b) His medals.
(c) His career.
(d) His fiance.

6. What cover job does Kiever offer Leamas?
(a) A travel agent.
(b) A professor.
(c) A banker.
(d) A freelance writer.

7. Who are the Vopos?
(a) West German spies.
(b) American border guards.
(c) East German spies.
(d) German border guards.

8. What was the purpose of the secret mission Leamas reveals to Peters while being interrogated at the Hague?
(a) Leamas coordinated secret flights for politicians on vacation.
(b) Leamas traveled with a rock band to gather information on their drug use.
(c) Leamas smuggled guns into London.
(d) Leamas would take cash to Scandinavian countries for secret agents.

9. How could Leamas and Peters' relationship could be described?
(a) Very tense.
(b) Very convivial.
(c) Professional.
(d) Leamas is afraid of Peters hurting him.

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

11. What actually does happen when Leamas meets with Control in Chapter 2?
(a) Leamas is fired.
(b) Leamas is promoted to Control's job.
(c) Leamas is given a new mission.
(d) Leamas is transferred to America.

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

13. Which of the following jobs does Leamas also take in Chapter 3?
(a) Selling cars.
(b) Selling men's suits.
(c) Selling encyclopedias door to door.
(d) Selling knives door to door.

14. Where does Leamas request he be sent after he officially defects?
(a) Soviet territory.
(b) Anywhere that isn't in Europe.
(c) London.
(d) America.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Leamas wanted in England?

2. Who is Liz Gold?

3. In chapter 1, we get a sense that Leamas is:

4. During Leamas' continued interrogations, how is Fiedler's character presented?

5. What do others call Leamas in respect to his relationship with alcohol after he quits working for British intelligence?

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