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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. How does Bernard allegedly die?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Car accident.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Heart failure.

2. The young American woos Sally with talk of which of the following?
(a) Opportunities.
(b) Hollywood.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) Wealth.

3. Where does the cousin work?
(a) Family store.
(b) Boarding house.
(c) Warehouse.
(d) Nazi headquarters.

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

5. Why does Peter plan to go to see a doctor once he returns home?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Head cold.
(d) Severe sunburn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christopher usually do during the day?

2. Frau Nowak suffers from which affliction?

3. Christopher compares staying at the Nowaks to being where?

4. What is Christopher's final feeling about the events that have occurred during his time in Berlin?

5. Christopher refers to his series of vignettes as a:

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Christopher's reaction to being flirted with by two of the three ill women at the sanitarium?

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

3. How does Christopher describe the situation?

4. When do the events in Section five take place? What is the basis of the vignette?

5. Who is Clive? What is the relationship between Sally, Christopher and Clive?

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

7. What is the subtitle to this section? When and where do the events take place?

8. What is the phrase the narrator uses to describe himself?

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

10. What becomes of Fraulein Schroeder?

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