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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the arrest of the Eastern boys?
(a) The Eastern coverage of the story.
(b) The Russian coverage of the story.
(c) The American coverage of the story.
(d) The Western coverage of the story.

2. On his first visit to the wall, what does the Narrator watch?
(a) Singing wrestlers.
(b) Fighting monkeys.
(c) Dancing troupes.
(d) Bus loads of visitors.

3. On maps, what does the Narrator notice is missing in West Berlin?
(a) Names.
(b) Latitudes.
(c) Rules.
(d) Streets.

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

5. What do the neighbors of Pommerer's friends in the countryside gather to discuss?
(a) Guests and strangers.
(b) Food and cooking.
(c) Art and literature.
(d) Politics and the environment.

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

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

8. What is vandalized consistently outside the Narrator's building?
(a) Trucks.
(b) Houses.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Cars.

9. For how many Fridays do the Eastern boys jump the Wall before they are stopped by the West Berlin patrol?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

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

11. What is the remarkable difference between West and East-bound travelers at the Schonefield airport?
(a) Noise and serenity.
(b) Expression and clothing.
(c) Singing and dancing.
(d) Hairstyle and practice.

12. What are the two bars in the Narrator's building?
(a) Russian and German.
(b) Austrian and Prussian.
(c) English and French.
(d) German and Bolivian.

13. What does Wolf Biermann do for a living?
(a) Write.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Teach.

14. What does the Narrator consider easier to understand than Berlin?
(a) Prague.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) Burlington.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Narrator meet in East Berlin that is forbidden to publish?

2. Who among the jumpers goes West to become a lumberjack?

3. What did the Narrator and Pommerer argue about the Commission on Order and Security report?

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

5. When the Narrator takes a cab from the station, what does the driver make fun of regarding the West?

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