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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an indulgent pleasure that the Narrator likes to do in West Berlin?
(a) Drink beer.
(b) Have chocolate.
(c) Drive fast.
(d) Eat hamburgers.

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

3. What position did Bolle have in the south that he tired of?
(a) A blacksmith.
(b) A gunsmith.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A metal worker.

4. Who do the artists in the countryside that the Narrator meets criticize that lost the privilege of going abroad?
(a) A writer.
(b) An intellectual.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A teacher.

5. What is the UN resolution on the evening news about that the Narrator watches on television?
(a) Soviet invasion of Afghanisthan.
(b) American invasion of Prussia.
(c) American invasion of France.
(d) Soviet invasion of Czech Republic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who remains silent when Pommerer's friends and neighbors complain about censorship?

2. What does the Narrator travel into East Berlin on?

3. What is everything in the DDR about?

4. When Gartenschläger climbs up and removes a comrade along the border, what does he luckily avoid sniping?

5. What does Pommerer learn from the foreigners in 1945?

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