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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who remains silent when Pommerer's friends and neighbors complain about censorship?
(a) Pommerer.
(b) Robert.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Lena.

8. 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 was sympathetic to their cause.
(d) Whether it symbolized the power of their government.

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

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

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

12. What pain do West Germans no longer feel strongly?
(a) Unification.
(b) Death.
(c) Birth.
(d) Separation.

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

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

15. Where does the Narrator meet his friend from East Berlin to play pinball?
(a) Gerhard's.
(b) Schlater's.
(c) Charlie's.
(d) Robert's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the banners that the Narrator sees in the countryside say about the Soviets?

2. How many times has Kabe jumped the Wall?

3. What does the Narrator consider easier to understand than Berlin?

4. What do Eastern and Western broadcasts emphasize?

5. Where do Pommerer and the Narrator go to watch jazz?

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