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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. Where do Pommerer and the Narrator go to watch jazz?

2. For how many Fridays do the Eastern boys jump the Wall before they are stopped by the West Berlin patrol?

3. What do Western publicity folk strive to avoid according to the Narrator?

4. Whose existence do BRD politicians deny?

5. What do Eastern and Western broadcasts emphasize?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the early 1960s see in Berlin in terms of escape methods in Berlin?

3. How did Lena's family treat her when she visited with the Narrator in East Berlin?

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

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

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

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

8. How does the Narrator describe Gerhard Schlater?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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