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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. Who is Peter Gulliam?
(a) Leamas' new cell mate.
(b) Leamas' new boss in West Berlin.
(c) Someone Leamas remembers as being involved in Rolling Stone.
(d) Leamas' new boss in Russia.

2. What does Leamas do to the grocer when he refuses Leamas' request?
(a) Leamas breaks several of his bones.
(b) Leamas writes a letter to the paper about how bad the store service is.
(c) Leamas organizes a strike against the store.
(d) Leamas takes his business elsewhere.

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

4. What does Liz buy for Leamas when she finds him in his apartment?
(a) Medical care.
(b) Books to read.
(c) Poison.
(d) Food and medicine.

5. When Leamas is released from jail, how does he feel about the person he first meets?
(a) Happy to see an old friend.
(b) Too sick to think much about it.
(c) Grateful for the man's money.
(d) Suspicious of their "chance" encounter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Abteilung?

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

3. What is the name of the hotel that Leamas stays in in Holland?

4. How does Karl try to cross the German border?

5. Of what descent is Fiedler?.

Short Essay Questions

1. How might the relationship between Miss Crail and Leamas be described? What makes it that way?

2. How does Leamas react to Liz's secret? Why?

3. When Fiedler asks Leamas about his political philosophy, how does Leamas respond?

4. How does Leamas spend his time in prison after attacking the grocer?

5. In Chapter 3, is Leamas the spy the same person as Leamas the public man? Why or why not?

6. Why does Leamas need his life and his mistakes to be so public in Chapter 3?

7. How does Leamas react to what happens when Karl tries to cross the border in Chapter 1?

8. Describe the choice Leamas makes in Chapter 3 about who he hangs out with. Why does he make that choice.

9. What reaction does Liz have to George Smiley's visit?

10. What shooting rule do the West German guards operate under?

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