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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "gift" does Frank Wirtanen say that the narrator and George Kraft have in common?
(a) They are creative.
(b) The things they did during the war don't bother them now.
(c) They can live in any country anywhere and it would not matter because one place is as good as another.
(d) They can be many things at once and all sincerely.

2. What does the G-man tell George Kraft to be sure to take with him to prison?
(a) His paintbox.
(b) A pen and paper to write his story.
(c) Plenty to read.
(d) A cake with a file in it.

3. What was in the shopping bag of the man who beat up the narrator?
(a) A gun.
(b) Copies of the Minuteman.
(c) Groceries.
(d) A noose.

4. What characteristics do all the guardsmen at Krapptauer's memorial have in common?
(a) They are all wearing sweatshirts from Ivy League schools.
(b) They are all senior citizens.
(c) They are all blond and over six feet tall.
(d) They are all left-handed.

5. What does Jones' chauffeur says always works even though most other things do not?
(a) Aspirin.
(b) Love.
(c) A black man.
(d) Timex watches.

6. What does Lionel Jones claim his organization is doing that the G-man is not?
(a) Obeying the Constitution.
(b) Living in peace and harmony with everyone.
(c) Serving God.
(d) Protecting the Republic.

7. Regarding Stepan Bodovskov's finding of the narrator's trunk, Frank Wirtanen says he had a trunkful of . . .
(a) Instant career.
(b) Trouble.
(c) Genius.
(d) The worst writing ever to come out of Germany.

8. What is in the capsule that Resi put in her mouth?
(a) Aspirin.
(b) Cyanide.
(c) A 2-karat diamond.
(d) A microchip.

9. Which directive does NOT appear on the sign that the Black Fuehrer of Harlem posts at the Iron Guard meeting?
(a) Get plenty of education.
(b) Keep your body clean and strong.
(c) Keep your opinions to yourself.
(d) Serve your country.

10. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?
(a) The maiden secretly hides it in the Ark of the Covenant.
(b) The black knight steals it.
(c) The maiden and the knight have impure thoughts.
(d) Christ appears to the maiden and claims it as his rightful possession.

11. What special ceremony is planned at the weekly meeting of the Iron Guard of the White Sons of the Constitution?
(a) A memorial service for August Krapptauer.
(b) Initiation rites for the narrator.
(c) The wedding of Resi and the narrator.
(d) A mock human sacrifice.

12. Which of the following is NOT a place the narrator met with the Blue Fairy Godmother?
(a) On a park bench in the Tiergarten in Berlin.
(b) In a dining hall in Wiesbaden.
(c) In his New York apartment.
(d) A vacant shop across the street from Lionel Jones' house.

13. What does the schoolteacher in the bomb shelter do to silence his hysterical wife?
(a) Knocks her out.
(b) Gets her to drink some vodka.
(c) Sings to her.
(d) Puts his socks on his hands and puts on a puppet show.

14. What was the title of a play about a young maiden and a knight who guard the Holy Grail?
(a) Charley's Aunt.
(b) Sir Gowan.
(c) The Goblet.
(d) Grail Quest.

15. How did the narrator and Helga feel after their homes had been bombed, at least for a moment?
(a) Like Adam and Eve.
(b) Like Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Like Noah and his wife.
(d) Like there was no more reason to live.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is George Kraft frantically searching for when he returns to the narrator's apartment?

2. What becomes of the rope that was given to the narrator?

3. What is the actual destination that Lionel Jones arranges for the narrator and the others to go as soon as the narrator is well enough to travel?

4. The narrator tells Helga he wants to get a bed like their old one that . . .

5. When the narrator is recovering from the beating, where does George Kraft speculate that he, Resi, and the narrator would go?

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