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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Norris go after leaving Mexico?
2. Norris confesses that he is about to join which group?
3. The Baron invites Bradshaw to what location?
4. A celebration takes place in the street outside the office of:
5. What activity does Bradshaw scheme to get out of because it induced extreme boredom?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator describe Mr. Norris? How do the men meet?
2. What happens the following morning? What information does Bradshaw gather?
3. How do Bradshaw and Norris part company at the end of the trip?
4. Who attempts to intercept Norris as he is leaving the city? What prevents the interception?
5. Norris leaves Berlin without a word to anyone. Why doesn't Norris explain in a letter?
6. What action takes place in the beginning of the chapter? Who was involved in the action and what was the result?
7. What becomes obvious to Bradshaw over the next few days?
8. What is one of the causes that allegedly caused Norris to leave Berlin?
9. What was it that made the Baron so upset in regards to Norris?
10. What does Bradshaw make of the event? What does he think about Norris?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the beginning of A Berlin Diary, Isherwood refers to himself as a camera. Isherwood says, "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." Why do you think Isherwood used the camera as a metaphor? Why would Isherwood want to record everything around him yet not think about or analyze it? What other references are made to the camera throughout the text? What other metaphors might have worked as well or better?
Essay Topic 2
Several of the characters seemed to be completely oblivious to the political atmosphere in Berlin at the time of the stories. How is it possible to be oblivious to the political scene? Was the scene as volatile as Isherwood makes it out to be? Would it be as easy or more difficult to be as uninformed in today's society? What do you think became of those people that saw themselves as being removed from such issues? Would those people be affected regardless of their knowledge and/or involvement? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Norris, the Baron, van Hoorn, Otto and others were involved in gathering and passing on information to various governments. Write a 750 word essay on this practice and how it might have been instrumental in World War II. Do you think what the men did was illegal? Who would punish them for their actions? What were the punishments? Do you consider the activities patriotism or an act of treason? Explain.
This section contains 669 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
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