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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the Narrator wait to cross the border?
(a) Heine Hesse Strasse.
(b) Leichen Strasse.
(c) Soviet Strasse.
(d) Burgen Strasse.

2. What do the restorers in the Narrator's building remove traces of?
(a) Paint.
(b) Bullet holes.
(c) Fights.
(d) Spackling.

3. Who among the jumpers goes West to become a lumberjack?
(a) Willy.
(b) Robert.
(c) Nelson.
(d) Lutz.

4. When Biermann is exiled, what do his supporters in East Berlin fear?
(a) A ransom.
(b) A ritual of control.
(c) A change in power.
(d) A lack of spontaneity.

5. What relations did Kabe strain through his act of jumping the Wall?
(a) French-German.
(b) Russian-German.
(c) German-German.
(d) English-German.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the restorers in the Narrator's building bet for?

2. Who seduces Lena but abandons her?

3. What does the Narrator bring into East Berlin that he is allowed to carry?

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

5. What does the customs man begin to dismantle that belongs to the Narrator?

(see the answer key)

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