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

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

3. What unique symbol is on Campbell's typewriter given to him in the Jerusalem prison?
(a) A swastika.
(b) The yin and yang symbol.
(c) A Star of David.
(d) Twin lightning strokes that symbolized the Nazi S.S.

4. What does Heinz Schildknecht love above all else?
(a) His wife.
(b) His motorcycle.
(c) His country.
(d) His career.

5. Which characteristic does NOT describe Howard W. Campbell, Jr.'s father?
(a) Engineer for General Electric.
(b) Raised in Tennessee.
(c) World War I veteran.
(d) Son of a Baptist minister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bernard O'Hare, who had captured the narrator in Germany, get the narrator's address?

2. How does the narrator get money to live on while hiding in New York?

3. What is the White Christian Minuteman?

4. How old is Resi Noth when the narrator leaves for the front lines?

5. Arpad Kovacs despises Jews who did not do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the Western Hemisphere University of the Bible. What kind of courses were taught and how could one earn a degree there?

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

4. What does Robert Wilson, the Black Fuehrer of Harlem, mean when he says that he and the narrator were on "opposite" sides? Provide some explanation as to why Wilson chose the side he did.

5. Describe the narrator's mother and what is the "queer demonstration" she gives?

6. How and where does the narrator learn the lurid details of his father-in-law's death and what does the narrator find troubling about the article, besides the fact that it is about the death of someone he knows?

7. Describe Resi's reaction to the news that her dog must be killed.

8. Why had Father Keeley been "unfrocked"?

9. What effect does the narrator's broadcast have on Werner Noth?

10. Where and in what kind of place does the narrator live while he is in hiding?

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