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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is everything in the DDR about?
(a) Authorization.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Ownership.
(d) Purpose.

2. When Biermann is exiled, what do his supporters in East Berlin fear?
(a) A ritual of control.
(b) A ransom.
(c) A lack of spontaneity.
(d) A change in power.

3. What is the DDR leadership according to Pommerer?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Independent.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Communist.

4. What is the Narrator fearful of in the last paragraphs of the book?
(a) Change.
(b) People.
(c) Adventure.
(d) Abuse.

5. Via what method does Bolle infiltrate the BRD?
(a) BRD agency.
(b) Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(c) Stasi plan.
(d) Kreuzberg garret.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rarely meet outside the Narrator's building but can be distinguished by noise?

2. Why does the Narrator assist the customs man in dismantling his possession?

3. What do the banners that the Narrator sees in the countryside exhort people to do?

4. What has taken too long to finish according to Pommerer in East Berlin that makes him angry?

5. Who helped Pommerer survive the war?

(see the answer key)

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