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

2. What is the misleading title of chapter 23?
(a) The Last Chapter.
(b) Chapter One.
(c) Chapter Six Hundred and Forty-three.
(d) Nothing Interesting Happens after This.

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

4. What are Resi, Father Keeley, and the Black Fuehrer doing when the narrator returns from his meeting with Frank Wirtanen?
(a) Playing cards.
(b) Preparing for their trip to Mexico.
(c) Organizing a search party.
(d) Talking to the police.

5. Where was the narrator NOT taken after his beating?
(a) Lionel Jones' cellar.
(b) The police station.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Abraham Epstein's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which directive does NOT appear on the sign that the Black Fuehrer of Harlem posts at the Iron Guard meeting?

2. What does the man in the bar say is the answer to Communism?

3. What false name does George Kraft suggest for the narrator?

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

5. Why does the narrator think his drawing is so popular?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator say he "froze" after he is released after the raid?

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

3. How did the narrator meet Werner von Braun and what detail does he recall from that meeting?

4. Describe the scene at Jones' house after the narrator returns from his meeting with the Blue Fairy Godmother.

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the narrator's surroundings when he regains consciousness after being beaten.

10. Where does Helga say she found the collection of the narrator's works? What is the significance of this place?

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