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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Lionel Jones a wealthy man?
(a) The life insurance and estates from his dead wives.
(b) The success of two products he invented.
(c) His chain of funeral homes.
(d) Sales of his newspaper.

2. What childish phrase does the Blue Fairy Godmother tell the narrator that he should not expect to hear for himself?
(a) Olly-olly-ox-in-free.
(b) Tag! You're it.
(c) I know you are, but what am I?
(d) Finders keepers.

3. With what American expression is the narrator not familiar when he first meets Frank Wirtanen?
(a) What's up, doc?
(b) Zip it.
(c) None of your beeswax.
(d) Takes one to know one.

4. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?
(a) She was blind.
(b) She had gained a lot of weight.
(c) She suffered from dementia and did not know who he was.
(d) Her hair had become snowy white.

5. How does Bernard O'Hare, who had captured the narrator in Germany, get the narrator's address?
(a) From a letter the narrator had sent to an American Legion post.
(b) From the Minuteman magazine.
(c) From Mrs. Epstein.
(d) From the attorney who handles the probate for the narrator's parents' will.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bernard Mengel tells the narrator that he (the narrator) is the only man he has heard of who . . .

2. Arpad Kovacs says he joined the Nazi S.S. The S.S. is famous for being what?

3. How many brothers and sisters does the narrator have?

4. Andor Gutman tells the narrator that music played through the loud speakers all day long at the prison camp, but was occasionally interrupted by the phrase, "Leichentrager zu Wache." What does "Leichentrager zu Wache" mean?

5. What did the narrator's father insist was not for children, but the narrator looked at anyway?

(see the answer key)

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