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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the narrator, what was the only thing about Helga that had changed since he last saw her?
2. After the war, how many years did the narrator live in New York?
3. With what American expression is the narrator not familiar when he first meets Frank Wirtanen?
4. How does Bernard O'Hare, who had captured the narrator in Germany, get the narrator's address?
5. Friedmann is the director of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Free American Corps. What was its purpose and how successful was it?
2. 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.
3. What is the gist of Bernard O'Hare's letter to the narrator?
4. Describe Resi's reaction to the news that her dog must be killed.
5. What reason does Andor Gutman give for thinking that the position of "corpse-carrier" would be a good job?
6. Describe the narrator's mother and what is the "queer demonstration" she gives?
7. Why had Father Keeley been "unfrocked"?
8. How does information regarding the narrator's whereabouts end up in The White Christian Minuteman?
9. Where and in what kind of place does the narrator live while he is in hiding?
10. Describe Heinz Schildknecht's wife as the narrator portrays her. Why does he not like her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Howard Campbell discovers that Resi has not only deceived him by posing as Helga's sister, but is also a communist agent involved in a plot to kidnap him. Discuss why Campbell is not particularly shocked or angered by these betrayals.
Essay Topic 2
The novel seems to present most Nazis as being sane and rational, but presents the members and friends of Lionel Jones' hate group as being irrational and paranoid. Discuss why members of the two groups receive different treatment in the novel. Be sure to consider the narrator's role in the story.
Essay Topic 3
Mother Night was originally published in 1961 and is set in that time and in earlier times of the narrator's life, especially World War II. Discuss whether a novel written decades ago relating to events that happened decades before that is relevant today.
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