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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 clings together in a new life in the West?
(a) West Germans.
(b) East Germans.
(c) Northern Germans.
(d) Southern Germans.
2. What does Pommerer claim that the West is controlled by?
(a) Dancers.
(b) Workers.
(c) Reactionaries.
(d) Imbeciles.
3. Where does the Narrator exit from the metro into East Berlin?
(a) Friedrichstrasse.
(b) Pommerltrasse.
(c) Berchelstrasse.
(d) Vidleshcstrasse.
4. What do the neighbors of Pommerer's friends in the countryside gather to discuss?
(a) Food and cooking.
(b) Guests and strangers.
(c) Art and literature.
(d) Politics and the environment.
5. What do Western publicity folk strive to avoid according to the Narrator?
(a) Self-criticism.
(b) Self-praise.
(c) Self-doubt.
(d) Self-loathing.
Short Answer Questions
1. What structure zigzags through the city of Berlin?
2. What relations did Kabe strain through his act of jumping the Wall?
3. What do the travelers heading west look upon the other travelers as?
4. What did the Narrator and Pommerer argue about the Commission on Order and Security report?
5. What do both sides of the Wall want to call Kabe?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Wall symbolize to the West Germans?
2. How has television affected the culture of the two German societies?
3. Describe how the East and West Germans are different at the Schönefield Airport.
4. What does the Narrator notice about Soviet propaganda compared to that of the West while traveling with Pommerer?
5. How does the Narrator describe Kabe?
6. How does the Narrator describe Gerhard Schlater?
7. Who is Wolf Biermann, mentioned in Chapter 1, and how is he described?
8. 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?
9. How does the Narrator describe Robert in Chapter 1?
10. What is the evening of music that Pommerer and the Narrator take in at the Hall of Young Talent like?
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