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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. Where does Helga get the money to be able to reunite with the narrator?
(a) A life insurance settlement from her deceased parents.
(b) A bounty hunter looking for the narrator.
(c) Donations from the narrator's supporters.
(d) Lottery winnings.

2. What famous speech does Goebbels, Head of the German Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, find particularly impressive?
(a) Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech.
(b) His own "Do you want total war?" speech.
(c) Christ's Sermon on the Mount.
(d) Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

3. When the narrator was serving as an American agent, how did he send coded information out of Germany?
(a) By using acrostics, where the reader would look at the first letter of each word in a newspaper article.
(b) By writing letters to his Native American grandmother in the Navajo language.
(c) By drawing cartoons that revealed a secret message when folded a certain way.
(d) In the form of special mannerisms, pauses, coughs, and stumbles during his broadcasts.

4. Comparing himself to Lionel Jones, the narrator insists that he is neither __________ nor __________.
(a) Smart nor good-looking.
(b) German nor American.
(c) Racist nor bigoted.
(d) Ignorant nor insane.

5. How did the narrator lose Helga?
(a) She died giving birth to their first child.
(b) She left him for another man.
(c) Russian troops seized the area where she was entertaining the troops and she is presumed dead.
(d) She was accused of spying for the Americans and was sent to a prison camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret does Resi reveal to the narrator before he leaves for the front lines?

2. Why does the narrator say Heinz's wife was hard to know?

3. What is the war crime that Howard Campbell stands accused of?

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

5. Why do Resi's dog and Mrs. Noth have "fat" bellies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Abraham Epstein's mother hoping to prove when she speaks to the narrator in German?

2. How does the narrator describe The White Christian Minuteman and what is his reaction to it arriving in his mailbox?

3. Briefly explain the "Nation of Two" the narrator frequently mentions. What is its original meaning and what does it signify to the narrator personally?

4. Why is Helga presumed to be dead?

5. Why was Lionel Jones sent to prison (before he became acquainted with the narrator), and based on what evidence?

6. What happened to members of the Sonderkommando when their job was done? How were they replaced?

7. Describe Heinz Schildknecht's wife as the narrator portrays her. Why does he not like her?

8. Explain why the narrator thinks Helga is "amazingly well-preserved."

9. What is Arpad Kovacs response when he reads the contents of one of Campbell's radio broadcasts?

10. In chapter one, where is the narrator? Why is he there and what is he doing?

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