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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. What false name does George Kraft suggest for the narrator?
(a) Don Juan.
(b) Don Quixote.
(c) Casanova.
(d) Pancho Villa.

2. What had been the garbage man's profession before coming to America?
(a) Veterinarian.
(b) Dentist.
(c) He had always been a garbage man.
(d) Attorney.

3. For what "crime" was Stepan Bodovskov arrested, tried, and shot?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Obscenity.
(c) Plagiarism.
(d) Originality.

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

5. After the narrator is released from arrest after the raid, what does he say he no longer has that kept him moving through "so many dead and pointless years"?
(a) Money.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Love.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is a "snaggle-toothed thought machine"?

2. In one of her final statements, Resi says of the narrator, "There is nothing left of him but __________ and a pair of eyes."

3. Where was the narrator NOT taken after his beating?

4. What special ceremony is planned at the weekly meeting of the Iron Guard of the White Sons of the Constitution?

5. What do the narrator and Resi find drawn in blue ink on his mailbox namecard?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the plot of "The Goblet"?

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

4. Describe what Stepan Bodovskov does with the narrator's writings. What is the result?

5. Describe the schoolteacher's wife's behavior in the bomb shelter. How does her husband respond?

6. Summarize the key points of the narrator's radio address that was played at the Iron Guard meeting.

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

8. What does the narrator suggests happened to George Kraft's pipe?

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

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

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