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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who occupied Japan after the Second World War?
(a) West Germany.
(b) USSR.
(c) USA.
(d) Britain.

3. What country does Viktor help his cousins get to?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Britain.
(c) Russia.
(d) Czechosloovakia.

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

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

6. What was the name of Iggy's partner?
(a) Yuta.
(b) Benny.
(c) Kevin.
(d) Jiro.

7. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) Hail Wein! Heil Berlin!
(b) Life peetering away.
(c) Hail Life as We Know it.
(d) Frothing at the Mouth.

8. What philosopher did Emmy call a bear with the manners of a bear?
(a) Nietszche.
(b) Klimt.
(c) Russell.
(d) Freud.

9. What did Jiro's grandfather make his fortune from?
(a) Brita.
(b) Netsuke.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Geta.

10. What does the author call a vision of heaven at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) Eight white suits hanging on a rail.
(b) A portrait of his family laughing around a fire.
(c) His wife and children walking towards him.
(d) Nine Jewish women parading down Ringstrasse.

11. What product are people in Vienna most in need of in the autumn of 1914?
(a) Milk.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Bread.
(d) Soap.

12. Who died on November 21, 1916?
(a) King George II.
(b) Franz Ferdinand.
(c) Franz Josef.
(d) Vladimir Lenin.

13. In which city did Henrik de Waal grow up?
(a) London.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Amsterdam.

14. What was printed on the dial of the English Radio?
(a) The names of countries.
(b) The names of capital cities.
(c) The names of German novels.
(d) The names of English singers.

15. What did Iggy learn how to sketch at the third rung fashion house?
(a) Beads.
(b) Tea gowns.
(c) Pyjamas.
(d) Female models.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Thomas travel to Odessa from by taxi?

2. Who is talking to Emmy in the picture in Chapter 17 taken in 1906?

3. What does the author call a tonic at the beginning of Chapter 17?

4. Which South American country declared war on Austria?

5. How is Elisabeth related to the author?

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