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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 is Bolle stationed that he learns skills in sabotage?

2. What is everything in the DDR about?

3. What does Pommerer learn from the foreigners in 1945?

4. What do the masked people use to break the glass of storefronts near the Kurfürstendamm?

5. Via what method does Bolle infiltrate the BRD?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bolle become a double agent for the DDR?

2. What is the similarity in the news reporting of the strike in Poland that both Pommerer and the Narrator observe?

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

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

5. What are some decadent pleasures that the Narrator enjoys in West Berlin?

6. What is Bolle's ultimate fate after he double crosses both intelligence sides?

7. How does the Narrator identify with the German people and not politics?

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

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

10. How does Bolle become an agent for the Stasi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the Wall? When was the Wall erected? How does it divide Berlin? How does it divide the people of Berlin? What does the Wall symbolize? What international relationships are changed as a result? Who gains or loses power?

Essay Topic 3

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"?

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