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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area does not have land mines according to Pommerer?
(a) Russian underground.
(b) K2 mountain top.
(c) Soviet Union.
(d) Center City.

2. What does Pommerer claim that the West is controlled by?
(a) Workers.
(b) Reactionaries.
(c) Imbeciles.
(d) Dancers.

3. What covers the land six miles out of Berlin that the Narrator notices before they see greenery?
(a) Lime dust.
(b) Volcanic ash.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Snow.

4. Where did Lena grow up?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Mecklenburg.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Corsica.

5. Instead of outsmarting the State, what did Biermann do that evoked criticism from his peers?
(a) Hide from it.
(b) Respect it.
(c) Challenge it.
(d) Accept it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the stranger that comes to talk to Pommerer in the bar and buys a round of drinks?

3. What did Pommerer's father leave for him for protection?

4. What do the construction workers in the Narrator's building think that they have a chance of winning in the Olympics?

5. When was Bolle ransomed by the BRD?

(see the answer key)

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