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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Heinrich's mother live?
(a) In a castle.
(b) In an ashram.
(c) In a convent.
(d) In New Hampshire.

2. What is the word the narrator uses to describe Babette's size?
(a) Waifish.
(b) Brawny.
(c) Broad.
(d) Ample.

3. Who is Bee's mother?
(a) Mother Devi.
(b) Babette.
(c) Steffie.
(d) Tweedy Browner.

4. What is the only class Jack still teaches?
(a) History of World Cinema.
(b) Advanced Nazism.
(c) Pop-culture studies.
(d) Elementary German.

5. What is the structure Murray and Jack visit, which is claimed to be the "most photographed" such structure?
(a) A silo.
(b) A barn.
(c) A library.
(d) A church.

6. What was Eric Massingale's former profession?
(a) X-ray technician.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Elvis impersonator.
(d) Microchip sales engineer.

7. Jack is the Chair of what department?
(a) German department.
(b) American Studies.
(c) History department.
(d) Department of Hitler studies.

8. Heinrich interrupts Jack and his sisters as they look through what book?
(a) The Bible.
(b) German-English dictionary.
(c) Mein Kampf.
(d) Mother Goose.

9. Where was Mr. Treadwell found?
(a) Backhome Department Store.
(b) Town Center Shopping
(c) County Outlet Mall.
(d) Mid-Village Mall.

10. In the car, Heinrich offers five dollars to anyone who can name the population of which country?
(a) Uruguay.
(b) Bolivia.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Argentina.

11. What kind of car plays a big role in the first chapters of the book, as parents drop off the college students?
(a) Moving vans.
(b) Cabs.
(c) Sports cars.
(d) Station wagons.

12. Who is Tweedy's husband?
(a) Howard Waldrop.
(b) Murray Siskind.
(c) Malcolm Hunt.
(d) Jack Gladney.

13. How much is tuition at the College-on-the-Hill?
(a) Fourteen thousand dollars.
(b) Thirty-three thousand dollars.
(c) Nine thousand dollars.
(d) Thirty thousand dollars.

14. Jack says if Denise is a "pint-sized commissar," then Bee was a "silent" what?
(a) Witness.
(b) Actor.
(c) Participant.
(d) Gem.

15. What is the minimum requirement for learning German if you want to major in Hitler studies?
(a) Fluency.
(b) No requirement.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the "barbarian" who died young, whom Jack thinks about in terms of his own death.

2. At which college is the department located?

3. Where did Steffie and Bee meet each other?

4. Eventually, Babette will teach a class in sitting, standing and what other activity?

5. What is Heinrich's middle name?

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