View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the Narrator meet in Lena's family in East Berlin?
(a) Her mother and sister.
(b) Her father and sister.
(c) Her father and brother.
(d) Her mother and brother.

2. What did the Narrator and Pommerer argue about the Commission on Order and Security report?
(a) Whether it symbolized the power of their government.
(b) Whether it mandated suspicious activity.
(c) Whether it was the same as that under Nazism.
(d) Whether it was sympathetic to their cause.

3. When the Narrator moves to Berlin, what has just gone up?
(a) The Opera.
(b) The Flag.
(c) The currency.
(d) The Wall.

4. Who fail to curse the uncomfortable shuttle bus after landing at the Schonefield airport?
(a) Germans.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) Swiss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the banners that the Narrator sees in the countryside exhort people to do?

2. What do the neighbors of Pommerer's friends in the countryside gather to discuss?

3. What is the name of the Eastern boys' friend that joins them in jumping the Wall?

4. What do both sides of the Wall want to call Kabe?

5. What are the two bars in the Narrator's building?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample