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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Narrator moves to Berlin, what has just gone up?
(a) The currency.
(b) The Wall.
(c) The Opera.
(d) The Flag.

2. Where have Pommerer's friends in the countryside settled into?
(a) Old industrial buildings.
(b) New barns.
(c) Broken down jeeps.
(d) Abandoned farm cottages.

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

4. What is the enormous structure in the countryside that the Narrator notices standing out?
(a) A statue.
(b) A TV antenna.
(c) A dish.
(d) A silo.

5. What does the Narrator travel into East Berlin on?
(a) S-Bahn.
(b) G-Bahn.
(c) U-Bahn.
(d) N-Bahn.

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

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

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

9. What kinds of escape methods from the Wall became popular in the early 1960s?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Drugging guards.
(c) Tightrope walking.
(d) Dancing.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What did the Narrator and Pommerer argue about the Commission on Order and Security report?
(a) Whether it was the same as that under Nazism.
(b) Whether it mandated suspicious activity.
(c) Whether it symbolized the power of their government.
(d) Whether it was sympathetic to their cause.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs that meets with Pommerer support?

2. Who remains silent when Pommerer's friends and neighbors complain about censorship?

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

4. Who rarely meet outside the Narrator's building but can be distinguished by noise?

5. What did Kabe claim was too quiet not to jump?

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