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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the attitude Green takes toward Klara that so offends Karl?
(a) He seems to barely realize Klara is in the room.
(b) He dismisses her opinions because of her sex.
(c) He flatters her and is flirtatious.
(d) He fawns on her because Pollunder is his boss.

2. What does Karl ask Pollunder about on the drive out to the country?
(a) Klara.
(b) His uncle.
(c) American customs.
(d) The business.

3. What does the stoker suggest that Karl should do with his life?
(a) Join a trade union.
(b) Go to college.
(c) Find work out West.
(d) Go back to Europe.

4. What do the text's descriptions of New York and its suburbs most emphasize?
(a) Steel, concrete, and glass.
(b) The juxtaposition of rich and poor.
(c) The juxtaposition of people and machinery.
(d) Noise, crowds, and speed.

5. Who is the author of Amerika?
(a) Franz Kafka.
(b) Hermann Hesse.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) Günter Grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jakob find out about why Karl was sent to the United States?

2. In the story's opening, what does Karl realize he has left below deck?

3. What do Karl and Klara get into a fight about after dinner?

4. Which detail most clearly supports the idea that the stoker is nervous about going to the office?

5. How does Karl almost fall from a window at the Pollunder house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What analogy does Jakob draw between Karl and a newborn baby?

2. What bizarre interaction does Karl have with Klara after dinner?

3. How does Karl spend his time during his first weeks in New York?

4. What unexpected news does Klara give her father when he and Karl arrive at the Pollunder home, and how does Pollunder react?

5. What does Karl discover about Mak on his trip to the Pollunder home?

6. What does the letter from Jakob to Karl say?

7. What conclusions has Karl already come to about America when the second chapter opens, and why?

8. What mixed messages does Karl get from Jakob about the visit to Pollunder's country home?

9. What does Karl imagine about his parents when he is in the office with the stoker?

10. How does Green's intervention keep Karl from getting back to New York on the same night he left?

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