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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 the narrator's profession?
(a) Tutor.
(b) Writer.
(c) Landscaper.
(d) Baker.

2. Where does Frau Nowak go to live?
(a) Nursing home.
(b) Paris.
(c) With her daughter.
(d) Sanitarium.

3. Where does Otto live?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Munich.
(c) Paris.
(d) Dusseldorf.

4. How many tenants live at the narrator's home?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. Where do the men go for entertainment?
(a) Train station.
(b) Communist rally.
(c) Nightclub.
(d) Seashore.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Christopher returns to the Nowak house to find Otto, he learns that the family seems quite content to live without which of the following?

2. The narrator likes to refer to himself as which of the following?

3. The young American woos Sally with talk of which of the following?

4. What is the girl's last name?

5. What finally ends the trouble relationship between Otto and Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the residents of the boarding house?

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

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

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

5. Peter shows several instances of mental illness. Describe the illness and what Peter has chosen to do about it.

6. What is the overall format of the book? What is one of the main recurring themes?

7. With which two family members does Christopher seem to connect with the most?

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

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

10. What becomes of Fraulein Schroeder?

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