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

2. Whose company does the Narrator enjoy until he dies at 70?
(a) A writer.
(b) A violinist.
(c) A dancer.
(d) A singer.

3. What do Eastern and Western broadcasts emphasize?
(a) Weaknesses.
(b) Similarities.
(c) Strengths.
(d) Polar opposites.

4. What relations did Kabe strain through his act of jumping the Wall?
(a) English-German.
(b) Russian-German.
(c) French-German.
(d) German-German.

5. Why do the Eastern boys jump the Wall?
(a) To go to school.
(b) To see a film.
(c) To meet some girls.
(d) To get food.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Narrator takes a cab from the station, what does the driver make fun of regarding the West?

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

3. What do the banners that the Narrator sees in the countryside exhort people to do?

4. Who considers themselves superior based on clothing, accessories and language?

5. When the Narrator moves to Berlin, what has just gone up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs who visits Pommerer have to say about solidarity?

2. What is the story that Pommerer tells the Narrator about the Willy boys and their friend Lutz concerning the Wall?

3. How has television affected the culture of the two German societies?

4. What does the Wall symbolize to the West Germans?

5. How does the Narrator describe Gerhard Schlater?

6. How does Kabe outwit both the East and West German governments?

7. What do neighbors in the German countryside gather to discuss that the Narrator observes?

8. How do the DDR and the Western television reflect bias when it comes to news reporting?

9. What did the early 1960s see in Berlin in terms of escape methods in Berlin?

10. How does Schneider uses the analogy of lovers to explain the German lack of interest in reunification?

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