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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. Why does the narrator think his drawing is so popular?
(a) It looks like something drawn on the wall of a public lavatory.
(b) It resembles a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
(c) It made people laugh at themselves and their own imperfections.
(d) It is so strikingly realistic.

2. What surprising revelation does Helga give the narrator after their first night back together?
(a) Their seventeen-year-old son is waiting in a nearby coffee shop.
(b) She has come to serve him with divorce papers.
(c) She is not Helga at all; she is actually Resi.
(d) She is there to spy on him.

3. What is Helga's present to the narrator when they are reunited?
(a) Her father's blue vase.
(b) The silver-hilted dagger that he had designed himself.
(c) His collected works of poems, stories, plays, letters, and one unpublished book.
(d) A motorcycle just like the one he borrowed from Heinz.

4. The narrator tells Helga he wants to get a bed like their old one that . . .
(a) Could fold up into the wall.
(b) Had a headboard like an Italian sunset.
(c) Was stuffed with goose down.
(d) Provided really good back support.

5. What does George Kraft think new surroundings and new identities would inspire him and the narrator to do?
(a) Find beautiful women to marry and finally start families.
(b) Find a wreck of a boat and restore it, then sail around the world.
(c) Open a bar near a beach.
(d) Be creative: the narrator to write again and Kraft to paint better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator mean when he says, "alles kaput"?

2. What was George Kraft using as target practice in Jones' cellar?

3. Where does Helga claim she located the trunk filled with many of the narrator's things?

4. What causes the Holy Grail to disappear in the narrator's play?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happened to the narrator after being beaten and knocked unconscious.

2. Describe Lazlo Szombathy, the man who uses the rope intended for the narrator. What had he done in his native country and after coming to America?

3. Describe the planned escape to Mexico. Who was involved and how?

4. What does Frank Wirtanen say will happen to Jones, Keeley, the Black Fuehrer, and the Iron Guardsmen after the raid?

5. What is Resi's explanation for tricking the narrator into thinking she is her dead sister?

6. What does the narrator tell Frank Wirtanen that he may have done with his life if Germany had won the war?

7. Why does George Kraft say he wants to start a new life with the narrator and Resi?

8. Describe the appearance of the Iron Guardsmen.

9. What is the Memoirs of a Monogamous Casanova and why did the narrator not want it to be published?

10. According to Frank Wirtanen, why do the Russians want to get their hands on the narrator?

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