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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does the Narrator dream about when he takes his first visit to the DDR?
(a) James.
(b) Lena.
(c) Kabe.
(d) Robert.
2. What is Lena's family concerned about regarding West Berlin and the West in general?
(a) Whether they will lose.
(b) Whether life is livable.
(c) Whether they will fit in.
(d) Whether they will suffer.
3. Why do the Eastern boys jump the Wall?
(a) To meet some girls.
(b) To go to school.
(c) To get food.
(d) To see a film.
4. Instead of outsmarting the State, what did Biermann do that evoked criticism from his peers?
(a) Challenge it.
(b) Hide from it.
(c) Respect it.
(d) Accept it.
5. What kinds of escape methods from the Wall became popular in the early 1960s?
(a) Tightrope walking.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Drugging guards.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs that meets with Pommerer support?
2. Which is NOT an escape method used by people trying to jump the Wall in the early 1960s?
3. From what direction does Kabe jump the Wall?
4. What is the name of the Eastern boy that Pommerer tells a story about jumping the Wall?
5. What does Wolf Biermann do for a living?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the artistic neighbors that the Narrator meets with Pommerer in the countryside say about the scientist and the state as compared to writers?
2. What are the Narrator's neighbors in Berlin like?
3. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs who visits Pommerer have to say about solidarity?
4. What do neighbors in the German countryside gather to discuss that the Narrator observes?
5. What is the evening of music that Pommerer and the Narrator take in at the Hall of Young Talent like?
6. How does Schneider uses the analogy of lovers to explain the German lack of interest in reunification?
7. How does the Narrator describe Kabe?
8. Describe Berlin from the Narrator's point of view in the airplane.
9. Describe how the East and West Germans are different at the Schönefield Airport.
10. How has television affected the culture of the two German societies?
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