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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 West Germany, what does Bolle find that no one is willing to join him in doing?
(a) To fortify the Wall.
(b) To escape the Wall.
(c) To climb the Wall.
(d) To destroy the Wall.

2. Where is Bolle stationed that he learns skills in sabotage?
(a) Croatia.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Dominican Republic.
(d) Corsica.

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

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

5. Where does Gartenschläger go with an assistant to gain access to the DDR border tools?
(a) Buchen.
(b) Bonn.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Hamburg.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert think is a fairy tale for those who choose to not know better?

2. Who arrives to distribute food and supplies in 1945 where the Narrator resides?

3. What does Pommerer believe that East Germans have more of than West Germans?

4. To whom does Bolle intend to betray the DDR officials?

5. After hearing Bolle's tale, whose story does Pommerer share with the Narrator in the bar?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Gartenschläger caught and killed?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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