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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 long of a prison sentence does Bolle receive from a West Berlin court?
(a) 12 month.
(b) 10 month.
(c) 8 month.
(d) 5 month.

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

3. Who seduces Lena but abandons her?
(a) A Russian priest.
(b) A Soviet count.
(c) A Red Army pilot.
(d) An Italian writer.

4. What does Bolle push to radicalize that protests the Wall?
(a) A West Berlin court.
(b) A Kreuzberg gathering.
(c) An ad hoc committee.
(d) A Stasi official meeting.

5. What does Pommerer fear that his phone troubles are linked to?
(a) His support of a scientist.
(b) His participation in a protest.
(c) His exile from work.
(d) His fear of death.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the stranger that buys Pommerer drinks want Pommerer to join?

3. Where does Gartenschläger have difficulty living?

4. Who hires Bolle as a full-time agent after he presents photographs and data from the BRD?

5. To whom does Bolle return after double crossing both the BRD and DDR?

Short Essay Questions

1. What first attracts the Narrator to Lena?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How do Robert and the Narrator differ in their view of news reports and their own role in it?

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

9. What does Robert observe about capitalism when he goes to check car models with the Narrator?

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

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