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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Pommerer and the Narrator go to watch jazz?
(a) Underground railroad.
(b) Getty museum.
(c) Hall of Young Talent.
(d) Friedrichstrasse station.

2. Who clings together in a new life in the West?
(a) West Germans.
(b) East Germans.
(c) Northern Germans.
(d) Southern Germans.

3. Who rarely meet outside the Narrator's building but can be distinguished by noise?
(a) Cats.
(b) Tenants.
(c) Singers.
(d) Dogs.

4. Who remains silent when Pommerer's friends and neighbors complain about censorship?
(a) Pommerer.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) Lena.
(d) Robert.

5. What does the Narrator consider easier to understand than Berlin?
(a) Prague.
(b) Burlington.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT an escape method used by people trying to jump the Wall in the early 1960s?

2. Where was Kabe sent because he jumped the Wall?

3. After 30 years, what rules are significantly differently in the way people act in West and East Berlin?

4. What is Lena's family concerned about regarding West Berlin and the West in general?

5. What causes the arrest of the Eastern boys?

(see the answer key)

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