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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Karden call for to refute Leamas' claims?
(a) Karden calls Fiedler to the stand, who has been recording Leamas all along.
(b) For Leamas to be tortured so he'll talk on the stand.
(c) A special jury to look into Leamas' allegations.
(d) A secret witness.

2. After Mundt's first interrogation, where does Leamus wake up?
(a) Back in his cell.
(b) At Liz's house.
(c) In a dark room he doesn't recognize.
(d) In a hospital room.

3. How could Liz's reaction to the plot that Leamas explains as they flee East German best be described?
(a) Pride.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Displeasure.
(d) Jealousy.

4. During Mundt's trial, what does Fiedler bring Leamas to the stand to explain?
(a) The function of several secret gadgets Fiedler found on Mundt.
(b) The banking procedures behind Rolling Stone.
(c) The secret codes needed to get into British intelligence buildings.
(d) The reason why Liz was the person behind the entire mission.

5. What does Leamas tell Fiedler about Liz?
(a) That she has a pretty sister Fiedler can date, too.
(b) That he's going to ask her to marry him.
(c) That she cannot be brought into the mission for any reason.
(d) That he wants her brought to East Berlin.

6. What is Liz's initial reaction to the letter she receives?
(a) Excited and eager.
(b) Frightened and fearful.
(c) Trusting and open.
(d) Skeptical but intrigued.

7. What happens to Liz when she is on top of the border wall?
(a) She is shot and falls to the bottom.
(b) She makes it over but breaks her ankle on the way down.
(c) She faints from stress, and Leamas has to carry her.
(d) She saves Leamas by pushing him over to the other side.

8. What has happened to Leamas between when he was knocked out and when he wakes up?
(a) He's been placed in handcuffs.
(b) His hands and legs have been bound.
(c) He's been taken to a hospital.
(d) He's been smuggled out of the country.

9. What does Mundt's representative argue during the trial?
(a) That Mundt may have made mistakes, but the jury should let him go anyway.
(b) That Mundt is too old to send to jail.
(c) That Mundt should receive a medal, not a jail sentence.
(d) That the Tribunal is the culmination of a British mission to destroy Mundt.

10. Liz receives a letter in Chapter 15. What does it say?
(a) That she has been selected for an all-expense-paid trip to East Germany.
(b) That she has inherited a lot of money from her late mother.
(c) That the library has been underpaying her for years.
(d) That Leamas will be home within a week.

11. What does the commissar tell Liz about what will happen to Leamas?
(a) He will be imprisoned for the rest of his life.
(b) He will be killed.
(c) He will be set free, but he must never leave East Germany.
(d) He will be returned to London.

12. At the end of Chapter 18, Leamas views Fiedler as what?
(a) Someone he can use to reach his goal, but that he doesn't really like.
(b) His ally.
(c) An annoying middleman.
(d) His enemy.

13. During Mundt's trial, what does Fiedler argue is suspicious about Mundt's time in England?
(a) That Mundt was able to escape without any negative consequences.
(b) That Mundt was stationed there even though he didn't speak English.
(c) That Mundt never came into the office, but still was paid for his work.
(d) That Mundt came home with way too much money.

14. As Liz and Leamas are fleeing East Germany, Leamas explains what happened to Liz. What does he say his real mission was?
(a) To save Mundt.
(b) To save Fiedler.
(c) To save Liz.
(d) To get information on East German secret gadgets.

15. When Mundt is first interrogating Leamas, Mundt tells Leamas that he must confess:
(a) Under no circumstances.
(b) To Mundt and Mundt only, since they're on the same side.
(c) At Fiedler's public trial.
(d) Into a tape recorder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Fiedler believe to be the special agent?

2. Who does Liz meet at a Communist Party meeting?

3. During the trial, who does Fiedler accuse of murdering Karl Riemeck?

4. After being sent the document with Leamas' forged signature, how does the bank reply?

5. How does Leamas react to Liz's testimony?

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