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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nationality of the man who assassinates the Archduke?
(a) Serbian.
(b) Croatian.
(c) Bulgarian.
(d) Bosnian.

2. What is the title of Chapter 16?
(a) Belly Up.
(b) Family in Trouble.
(c) Kristall Nacht.
(d) Liberty Hall.

3. What country does Viktor receive a visa for on March 1, 1939?
(a) USA.
(b) China.
(c) Britain.
(d) Japan.

4. Which of the following objects is placed on a tray to play Kim's Game?
(a) Emmy's book of poetry.
(b) Pip's revolver.
(c) Charles' netsuke.
(d) Vitkors sword.

5. What does the author hope the netsuke will open for him?
(a) The key to who he is.
(b) The key to his family secrets.
(c) The key to Viennese intellectual life.
(d) The key to his blocked ideas.

6. Which country promises to support Austria against the Serbs?
(a) Britain.
(b) France.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Germany.

7. What did many Japanese men have to wear after the war?
(a) Their swimming costumes.
(b) Their kimonos.
(c) Their army uniforms.
(d) Their gowns.

8. What does the author call a tonic at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Elisabeth's memoirs.
(b) The netsuke.
(c) Viktor's paintings.
(d) Emmy's poetry.

9. What does Richter and Henker translate to in English?
(a) Fighters and cowards.
(b) Poets and thinkers.
(c) Lovers and murderers.
(d) Judges and hangmen.

10. What do Mussolini, Chamberlain and Daladier sign on September 30th?
(a) The Berlin Contract.
(b) The London Accord.
(c) The Munich Accord.
(d) The Vienna Agreement.

11. What does Gedanken im Kriege translate to in English?
(a) Thanks be the war.
(b) Austria unite.
(c) Thank God for a Crisis.
(d) War needs love.

12. What is the title of Chapter 27?
(a) The Years of Thinking.
(b) The Tears of Things.
(c) Feeling Through the Darkness.
(d) Finding Nothing but Hate.

13. Why didn't the critics like netsuke?
(a) They thought they were overdone.
(b) They thought they were too delicate.
(c) They thought they had no color.
(d) They thought no effort went into making them.

14. What two places does the author say Emmy knows how to live in?
(a) England and Vienna.
(b) The town and the city.
(c) Vienna and France.
(d) The country and the city.

15. What city does Iggy go to from Paris?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Riga.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 24?

2. What is the title of Part 4?

3. What is the title of Chapter 34?

4. What Richard Hannay novel does the author reference in this section?

5. Why is it seen as dishonorable when Germany invaded Belgium?

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