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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. How do the Western and Stasi superiors differ according to Bolle?
(a) Their dental work and wristwatches.
(b) Their stations and power.
(c) Their decor and makeup.
(d) Their guns and bullets.

2. What does Bolle join when he cannot find anywhere to serve after leaving the south?
(a) French Foreign Legion.
(b) DDR.
(c) West German Defense.
(d) BRD.

3. What does the DDR employ along the border that Gartenschläger wants to have?
(a) Invisible fence.
(b) Guard bullets.
(c) Self-triggering robots.
(d) Invisible mines.

4. Who is the Narrator's aunt?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Dora.
(c) Isabella.
(d) Clara.

5. What is the subject of the documentary that the Narrator watches with Pommerer?
(a) The reconstruction.
(b) The war.
(c) The reunification.
(d) The partition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gartenschläger sell his stolen item to a news magazine for?

2. Where is Bolle stationed that he learns skills in sabotage?

3. Where are strikes occurring that the Narrator watches on television with Pommerer?

4. Where does Bolle erect his device to preach war against the Wall?

5. Why do the Narrator and Robert have to leave the cafe near the Kurfürstendamm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference in the experiences that Pommerer and the Narrator have in 1945 with the Russians and Americans respectively?

2. When the leather-bound storyteller is found to have graffiti, how does he extricate himself from the clutches of the DDR?

3. What are some decadent pleasures that the Narrator enjoys in West Berlin?

4. Why does Gartenschläger attempt to get a self-triggering robot?

5. How does Bolle become a double agent for the DDR?

6. What does the man who approaches Pommerer in the bar tell him about Butterfly?

7. What is the similarity in the news reporting of the strike in Poland that both Pommerer and the Narrator observe?

8. What are Lena's relationships with men prior to meeting the Narrator?

9. How is Gartenschläger caught and killed?

10. What is Bolle's ultimate fate after he double crosses both intelligence sides?

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