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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. What is a common activity in the Nowak house?
(a) Bickering.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Football.
(d) Watching TV.

2. What does Otto leave for Christopher after the break up?
(a) Money.
(b) Zarf.
(c) Note.
(d) Pipe.

3. What does Fraulein Mayr do for a living?
(a) Performs.
(b) Acts as a secretary.
(c) Cleans dormitories.
(d) Teaches school.

4. The narrator likes to refer to himself as which of the following?
(a) Rock.
(b) Sponge.
(c) Camera.
(d) Water.

5. Who does the daughter marry?
(a) Anthropologist.
(b) Spanish lawyer.
(c) French doctor.
(d) English aristocrat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes entrenched with the Nazis?

2. What is a writer's term for a piece that is essentially "a slice of life?"

3. Where does the cousin work?

4. Who does Sally visit after the young man vanishes?

5. What shocking news does Sally receive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe Peter and Otto?

2. What does Christopher discover when he returns to the Nowak house to pick up Otto?

3. What becomes of Fraulein Schroeder?

4. What is familiar about the lodgings of the narrator?

5. What precipitates Sally's move from her residence? Where does she go?

6. How does Christopher describe Bernard? How does he compare to Natalia?

7. What is the nature of the relationship between Peter and Otto?

8. What is the purpose of Christopher's trip to Ruegen Island? Where does he stay while on the island?

9. What events lead up to the first problems with Sally and Christopher?

10. What happens to Bernard at the end of the story? What does it really mean?

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