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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. Instead of raping, what do the foreigners that visit where the Narrator lives in 1945, do instead?
(a) Have love affairs.
(b) Burn effigies.
(c) Fight indiscriminately.
(d) Buy homes.

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

3. Why do the Narrator and Robert have to leave the cafe near the Kurfürstendamm?
(a) Demonstrations are beginning.
(b) Alarms are going off.
(c) Paranoia is building up.
(d) Violence is breaking out.

4. What does Pommerer believe that East Germans have more of than West Germans?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Commitment.
(d) Fear.

5. When is the best time to cross the border at Heinrich Heine Strasse?
(a) 2 to 4.
(b) 3 to 5.
(c) 12 to 2.
(d) 10 to 12.

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

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

4. Who is the Narrator's aunt?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What first attracts the Narrator to Lena?

2. How does Bolle become an agent for the Stasi?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What amazes the Narrator about his cousin's behavior in Dresden?

9. How do Pommerer and the Narrator differ on their views of East and West German workers?

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

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