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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Pommerer and the Narrator go to watch jazz?
(a) Hall of Young Talent.
(b) Friedrichstrasse station.
(c) Getty museum.
(d) Underground railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What did Kabe claim was too quiet not to jump?
(a) His life.
(b) His dreams.
(c) His friend's death.
(d) His neighborhood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What relations did Kabe strain through his act of jumping the Wall?

3. How many friends does Lena have that dress differently than others in West Germany?

4. On maps, what does the Narrator notice is missing in West Berlin?

5. When the Narrator arrives home at midnight, who is he surprised to see working at window level in his building?

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