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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pain do West Germans no longer feel strongly?
(a) Separation.
(b) Unification.
(c) Death.
(d) Birth.

2. From what direction does Kabe jump the Wall?
(a) East.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) West.

3. What structure zigzags through the city of Berlin?
(a) The airport.
(b) The helicopter pad.
(c) The Wall.
(d) The Russian embassy.

4. What does Wolf Biermann do for a living?
(a) Teach.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Write.

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

6. What are the two bars in the Narrator's building?
(a) English and French.
(b) Russian and German.
(c) German and Bolivian.
(d) Austrian and Prussian.

7. Who rarely meet outside the Narrator's building but can be distinguished by noise?
(a) Cats.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Tenants.
(d) Singers.

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

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

10. How many times has Kabe jumped the Wall?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 13.
(d) 14.

11. What camps are the Eastern boys sent to?
(a) Army and youth.
(b) Mission and special education.
(c) Intelligence and counterintelligence.
(d) Juvenile and reformatory.

12. What do the travelers heading west look upon the other travelers as?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Friends.
(c) Aliens.
(d) Zoo animals.

13. Whose government does the Narrator find more intrusive on citizen privacy?
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) North.
(d) West.

14. Instead of outsmarting the State, what did Biermann do that evoked criticism from his peers?
(a) Hide from it.
(b) Accept it.
(c) Respect it.
(d) Challenge it.

15. Who remains silent when Pommerer's friends and neighbors complain about censorship?
(a) Robert.
(b) Pommerer.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Lena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Eastern boys' friend that joins them in jumping the Wall?

2. What lying outside the path to the door of the Narrator's building remains the same?

3. What relations did Kabe strain through his act of jumping the Wall?

4. What area does not have land mines according to Pommerer?

5. For how many Fridays do the Eastern boys jump the Wall before they are stopped by the West Berlin patrol?

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