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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. What must Bolle learn in the West to earn the right he forfeited earlier?
(a) How to fight superiors.
(b) How to gather data.
(c) How to arrest criminals.
(d) Counterintelligence.

2. What did the Narrator's uncle do for a living before he died?
(a) He was a preacher.
(b) He was a poet.
(c) He was an artist.
(d) He was a mining executive.

3. What does a West Berlin court declare Bolle to be?
(a) A lost, confused soul.
(b) A parapalegic.
(c) A convicted felon.
(d) A mass murderer.

4. When Bolle is allowed to travel back and forth through Germany and is not arrested for his espionage, what does he become?
(a) A double agent.
(b) An officer.
(c) A cop.
(d) A preacher.

5. What does Gartenschläger sell his stolen item to a news magazine for?
(a) 12,000 DM.
(b) 18,000 DM.
(c) 14,000 DM.
(d) 15,000 DM.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is an indulgent pleasure that the Narrator likes to do in West Berlin?

3. Where is Gartenschläger killed?

4. Where does Gartenschläger have difficulty living?

5. How do the Western and Stasi superiors differ according to Bolle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Narrator's first encounter with Frieda in his apartment building.

2. What does Robert think of the police's participation in the violence in town?

3. What first attracts the Narrator to Lena?

4. What does Pommerer observe about the DDR leadership and the reconstruction of East Berlin?

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

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

7. How is Gartenschläger caught and killed?

8. How does Bolle end up in the French legion in Corsica?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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