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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Eastern boys' friend that joins them in jumping the Wall?
(a) Lutz.
(b) Robert.
(c) Willy.
(d) Nelson.

2. Whose existence do BRD politicians deny?
(a) Kabe.
(b) East German state.
(c) West German state.
(d) DDR.

3. Where does the Narrator exit from the metro into East Berlin?
(a) Friedrichstrasse.
(b) Berchelstrasse.
(c) Pommerltrasse.
(d) Vidleshcstrasse.

4. Who owns the building in which the Narrator lives?
(a) Violinists.
(b) Police.
(c) Writers.
(d) Gentry.

5. Who does the Narrator dream about when he takes his first visit to the DDR?
(a) Kabe.
(b) Lena.
(c) Robert.
(d) James.

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

7. Who rarely meet outside the Narrator's building but can be distinguished by noise?
(a) Tenants.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Singers.
(d) Cats.

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

9. Where was Kabe sent because he jumped the Wall?
(a) Constitutional bunker.
(b) Psychiatric evaluation.
(c) Polar extremes.
(d) Underground cellar.

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

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

12. What do Eastern and Western broadcasts emphasize?
(a) Weaknesses.
(b) Strengths.
(c) Polar opposites.
(d) Similarities.

13. What lying outside the path to the door of the Narrator's building remains the same?
(a) Garbage.
(b) Colors.
(c) Borders.
(d) Flowers.

14. When the Narrator arrives home at midnight, who is he surprised to see working at window level in his building?
(a) Climbers.
(b) Welders.
(c) Writers.
(d) Guards.

15. What do both sides of the Wall want to call Kabe?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Insane.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Funny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose government does the Narrator find more intrusive on citizen privacy?

2. What does the Narrator notice has been removed from all the vehicles in the West?

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

4. For how many Fridays do the Eastern boys jump the Wall before they are stopped by the West Berlin patrol?

5. Why do the Eastern boys jump the Wall?

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