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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 woman with bulging eyeballs that meets with Pommerer support?

2. Which is NOT an escape method used by people trying to jump the Wall in the early 1960s?

3. What do the banners that the Narrator sees in the countryside say about the Soviets?

4. Who clings together in a new life in the West?

5. What area does not have land mines according to Pommerer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Narrator describe Kabe?

2. How does the Narrator describe Gerhard Schlater?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"The Wall Jumper" is particularly effective in conveying meaning through powerful imagery. Powerful imagery to establish connections in the minds of readers with the story's characters and plot. Imagery is the picture we form in our minds of the story we read. It can involve, visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, kinetic, and kinesthetic. Schneider uses these imagery to translate words into a visual story that we can see and participate in within our minds. Describe the use of imagery in this novel.

Essay Topic 2

Schneider powerfully portrays the theme of mental conditioning in Berlin. West Berlin residents consider themselves superior to their neighbors in the East. How are the Germans conditioned? What do they believe? What are they afraid of? Examine this theme in relationship to the quote by Schneider, "Where does the state end and the self begin? How far are we conditioned by the place we are born in?"

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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