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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 relations did Kabe strain through his act of jumping the Wall?

2. What is the name of the Eastern boy that Pommerer tells a story about jumping the Wall?

3. What does the woman with bulging eyeballs that meets with Pommerer support?

4. When the Narrator takes a cab from the station, what does the driver make fun of regarding the West?

5. What is vandalized consistently outside the Narrator's building?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the difference in reporting between West and East German politicians on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on the evening news?

3. How does the Narrator describe Kabe?

4. What are the Narrator's neighbors in Berlin like?

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

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

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

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

9. How does the Narrator describe Gerhard Schlater?

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

Pommerer and The Narrator are two of the most active characters in discussing their social and political beliefs.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist and how do they interact? What is similar about them and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Pommerer had a direct influence upon? What are some events that The Narrator had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support or sympathy to people that attempt to jump the Wall? Which one is stronger and why?

Essay Topic 2

"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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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