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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Narrator notice has been removed from all the vehicles in the West?

2. What does Pommerer claim that the West is controlled by?

3. What is the cordoned off section belonging to Hitler that people on both sides of the Wall stare at through binoculars?

4. Why do the Eastern boys jump the Wall?

5. When the Narrator moves to Berlin, what has just gone up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Wall symbolize to the West Germans?

2. How does the Narrator describe Robert in Chapter 1?

3. How does Schneider uses the analogy of lovers to explain the German lack of interest in reunification?

4. What is the story that Pommerer tells the Narrator about the Willy boys and their friend Lutz concerning the Wall?

5. What do neighbors in the German countryside gather to discuss that the Narrator observes?

6. How do the DDR and the Western television reflect bias when it comes to news reporting?

7. Who is Wolf Biermann, mentioned in Chapter 1, and how is he described?

8. How does the Narrator view the East from the S-Bahn train station?

9. How is the difference in the importance of the Wall shown in Western and Eastern maps?

10. How has television affected the culture of the two German societies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Love and sexuality between the Narrator and Lena is a recurring theme. How does the Narrator's feelings about love change from the beginning of the novel to its end? In what ways has he expanded his awareness and beliefs? Is sexuality connected to love for the Narrator? How does his feelings for Lena develop and change and how does his relationship with her contrast with that of other women that he has had romantic feelings for or an idealized relationship with?

Essay Topic 2

Consider this quote, "This stillness probably ties in with the Germans' habit of hearing their own noise through their neighbors' ears--a consideration which even three-year-olds are taught to show," (Chapter 1, pg. 16.) How does this reveal the culture in which East Germans lived? What does this say about their society? Compare and contrast in relationship to West Berlin and Western society as a whole at the time.

Essay Topic 3

Tensions between certain characters offer insight into unfolding dramatic events. Pick two important individuals that interact with each other in "The Wall Jumper" and discuss their volatile relationship within the context of historical events. How does their conflict advance a theory or effect if any?

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