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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the banners that the Narrator sees in the countryside exhort people to do?
(a) Fight together.
(b) Pull apart.
(c) Shoot together.
(d) Pull together.

2. Who do neighbors shun in favor of those who struggle against publishers and the party?
(a) Successful scientists.
(b) Successful writers.
(c) Successful poets.
(d) Successful designers.

3. What structure zigzags through the city of Berlin?
(a) The helicopter pad.
(b) The Wall.
(c) The airport.
(d) The Russian embassy.

4. What is the cordoned off section belonging to Hitler that people on both sides of the Wall stare at through binoculars?
(a) Hallstadt.
(b) Fuhrenbunker.
(c) Listadt.
(d) Biermann.

5. Why do the Eastern boys jump the Wall?
(a) To go to school.
(b) To see a film.
(c) To get food.
(d) To meet some girls.

6. How many times has Kabe jumped the Wall?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 15.

7. Whose company does the Narrator enjoy until he dies at 70?
(a) A singer.
(b) A writer.
(c) A violinist.
(d) A dancer.

8. In the Narrator's dream, what does he fall overboard from?
(a) A boat.
(b) A car.
(c) A plane.
(d) A helicopter.

9. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs that meets with Pommerer support?
(a) Spying.
(b) War.
(c) Peace.
(d) Solidarity.

10. What do the banners that the Narrator sees in the countryside say about the Soviets?
(a) Fight them.
(b) Hate them.
(c) Love them.
(d) Ignore them.

11. Which is NOT an escape method used by people trying to jump the Wall in the early 1960s?
(a) Ballooning.
(b) Raking.
(c) Scuba diving.
(d) Vaulting.

12. What do BRD politicians emphasize regarding East and West Germany?
(a) Alienation.
(b) War.
(c) Reunification.
(d) Separation.

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

14. What does the Narrator notice has been removed from all the vehicles in the West?
(a) LB insignia.
(b) VW insignia.
(c) AC insignia.
(d) FD insignia.

15. What is Lena's family concerned about regarding West Berlin and the West in general?
(a) Whether they will suffer.
(b) Whether they will fit in.
(c) Whether they will lose.
(d) Whether life is livable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where have Pommerer's friends in the countryside settled into?

2. What do Western publicity folk strive to avoid according to the Narrator?

3. What is vandalized consistently outside the Narrator's building?

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

5. When the Narrator moves to Berlin, what has just gone up?

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