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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. Via what method does Bolle infiltrate the BRD?
(a) Kreuzberg garret.
(b) Stasi plan.
(c) BRD agency.
(d) Ho Chi Minh Trail.

2. What do the masked people use to break the glass of storefronts near the Kurfürstendamm?
(a) Books.
(b) Rifles.
(c) Canes.
(d) Stones.

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

4. What does Bolle erect to preach war against the Wall?
(a) A substation.
(b) A satellite dish.
(c) A TV antenna.
(d) A radio transmitter.

5. When Bolle jumps the wall, what does he tell the DDR guards that he wants?
(a) To fight with them.
(b) To learn secrets.
(c) To return home.
(d) To give in.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only traveler at the checkpoint that the Narrator sees by the border at Heinrich Heine Strasse?

2. What is the DDR leadership according to Pommerer?

3. What does Robert find always falls outside of himself when he considers events and motives?

4. In West Germany, what does Bolle find that no one is willing to join him in doing?

5. Over what philosopher do Robert and the Narrator argue that brings them almost to blows?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the Narrator's experience at the border with the guards and the man with the dog.

3. How is Gartenschläger caught and killed?

4. What does a stranger warn Robert and the Narrator about in the cafe and what happens subsequently?

5. How does the Narrator identify with the German people and not politics?

6. Why does Pommerer believe his phone troubles are linked to a protest he did?

7. What first attracts the Narrator to Lena?

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

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

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

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