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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. In the Narrator's dream, what does he fall overboard from?
(a) A plane.
(b) A car.
(c) A boat.
(d) A helicopter.
2. What structure zigzags through the city of Berlin?
(a) The airport.
(b) The Russian embassy.
(c) The Wall.
(d) The helicopter pad.
3. What is the enormous structure in the countryside that the Narrator notices standing out?
(a) A TV antenna.
(b) A silo.
(c) A dish.
(d) A statue.
4. What do the neighbors of Pommerer's friends in the countryside gather to discuss?
(a) Politics and the environment.
(b) Guests and strangers.
(c) Food and cooking.
(d) Art and literature.
5. What do the travelers heading west look upon the other travelers as?
(a) Aliens.
(b) Friends.
(c) Enemies.
(d) Zoo animals.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Kabe fool his government?
2. Where was Kabe sent because he jumped the Wall?
3. Who rarely meet outside the Narrator's building but can be distinguished by noise?
4. What is the UN resolution on the evening news about that the Narrator watches on television?
5. What did the Narrator and Pommerer argue about the Commission on Order and Security report?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Wall symbolize to the West Germans?
2. How did Lena's family treat her when she visited with the Narrator in East Berlin?
3. 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?
4. Describe how the East and West Germans are different at the Schönefield Airport.
5. What is the story that Pommerer tells the Narrator about the Willy boys and their friend Lutz concerning the Wall?
6. What are the Narrator's neighbors in Berlin like?
7. How does Kabe outwit both the East and West German governments?
8. How do the DDR and the Western television reflect bias when it comes to news reporting?
9. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs who visits Pommerer have to say about solidarity?
10. What is the difference in reporting between West and East German politicians on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on the evening news?
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