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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. Who arrives to distribute food and supplies in 1945 where the Narrator resides?

2. What did Pommerer's father leave for him for protection?

3. Where does Pommerer live in 1945?

4. What does the DDR employ along the border that Gartenschläger wants to have?

5. What is an indulgent pleasure that the Narrator likes to do in West Berlin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference in the experiences that Pommerer and the Narrator have in 1945 with the Russians and Americans respectively?

2. What does Pommerer observe about the DDR leadership and the reconstruction of East Berlin?

3. What does Robert observe about capitalism when he goes to check car models with the Narrator?

4. When the leather-bound storyteller is found to have graffiti, how does he extricate himself from the clutches of the DDR?

5. How does Bolle end up in the French legion in Corsica?

6. Why does Pommerer believe his phone troubles are linked to a protest he did?

7. What amazes the Narrator about his cousin's behavior in Dresden?

8. What does the man who approaches Pommerer in the bar tell him about Butterfly?

9. Describe the Narrator's first encounter with Frieda in his apartment building.

10. Why does Gartenschläger attempt to get a self-triggering robot?

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

Describe some of the settings for "The Wall Jumper". What is the overall setting? How does the city of Berlin change over time? How is the East different from the West? Be sure to include geography, time period and any pertinent popular culture events. Why did the author choose to use these places in "The Wall Jumper"?

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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