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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the UN resolution on the evening news about that the Narrator watches on television?
(a) Soviet invasion of Czech Republic.
(b) American invasion of France.
(c) American invasion of Prussia.
(d) Soviet invasion of Afghanisthan.

2. What lying outside the path to the door of the Narrator's building remains the same?
(a) Borders.
(b) Garbage.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Colors.

3. What covers the land six miles out of Berlin that the Narrator notices before they see greenery?
(a) Snow.
(b) Lime dust.
(c) Volcanic ash.
(d) Newspapers.

4. What do Western publicity folk strive to avoid according to the Narrator?
(a) Self-doubt.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Self-praise.
(d) Self-criticism.

5. What do Eastern and Western broadcasts emphasize?
(a) Weaknesses.
(b) Similarities.
(c) Polar opposites.
(d) Strengths.

6. What do the banners that the Narrator sees in the countryside exhort people to do?
(a) Fight together.
(b) Pull apart.
(c) Pull together.
(d) Shoot together.

7. When the Narrator moves to Berlin, what has just gone up?
(a) The currency.
(b) The Opera.
(c) The Flag.
(d) The Wall.

8. What do both sides of the Wall want to call Kabe?
(a) Funny.
(b) Insane.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Dangerous.

9. Who is the Narrator's first landlord in Berlin?
(a) Charlie.
(b) James.
(c) Robert.
(d) Gerhard.

10. Who among the jumpers goes West to become a lumberjack?
(a) Lutz.
(b) Willy.
(c) Robert.
(d) Nelson.

11. Whose existence do BRD politicians deny?
(a) Kabe.
(b) East German state.
(c) West German state.
(d) DDR.

12. What is the remarkable difference between West and East-bound travelers at the Schonefield airport?
(a) Singing and dancing.
(b) Hairstyle and practice.
(c) Noise and serenity.
(d) Expression and clothing.

13. Who do the artists in the countryside that the Narrator meets criticize that lost the privilege of going abroad?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A writer.
(d) A teacher.

14. For how many Fridays do the Eastern boys jump the Wall before they are stopped by the West Berlin patrol?
(a) 14.
(b) 13.
(c) 12.
(d) 11.

15. What is the name of the Eastern boys' friend that joins them in jumping the Wall?
(a) Lutz.
(b) Nelson.
(c) Robert.
(d) Willy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wolf Biermann do for a living?

2. On his first visit to the wall, what does the Narrator watch?

3. On the East German map, what is lacking in the West German side?

4. What does Pommerer claim that the West is controlled by?

5. What is the cordoned off section belonging to Hitler that people on both sides of the Wall stare at through binoculars?

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