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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. Whose government does the Narrator find more intrusive on citizen privacy?

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

3. How many friends does Lena have that dress differently than others in West Germany?

4. What does the Narrator travel into East Berlin on?

5. From what direction does Kabe jump the Wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Berlin from the Narrator's point of view in the airplane.

2. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs who visits Pommerer have to say about solidarity?

3. How does the Narrator describe Gerhard Schlater?

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

5. What do the artistic neighbors that the Narrator meets with Pommerer in the countryside say about the scientist and the state as compared to writers?

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

7. How do Pommerer and the Narrator differ on their views regarding East and West Germany and change?

8. Describe how the East and West Germans are different at the Schönefield Airport.

9. How does the Narrator describe Kabe?

10. What is the evening of music that Pommerer and the Narrator take in at the Hall of Young Talent like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Lena with Frieda. How are these women similar or different? What gender roles do they follow and what do they oppose? How is Lena's thinking representative of her upbringing? What does she like and dislike about the West? What about Frieda?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the significance of the novel's title. What did Schneider mean by calling the book "The Wall Jumper"? Cite an example to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

"The Wall Jumper" is written primarily in the first-person point of view of the Narrator. Is this point of view more or less effective than telling the story from the third-persona and omniscient perspective?

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