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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does this section begin?
(a) On a cold and snowy day in London.
(b) On a cool fall Chicago night.
(c) On a cold and windy Paris night.
(d) On a warm, still night in New York.

2. How does the man in the concentration camp try to justify his actions?
(a) He will share.
(b) Says that the person he ate was already dead.
(c) He likes meat.
(d) There was nothing else to eat.

3. With what does he grapple?
(a) His desire to tell the police not to come.
(b) His desire to end the war he has just begun.
(c) His urge to turn off the alarm, yet keep it ringing.
(d) His urge to end his life while simultaneously recovering from a near-death experience.

4. What is odd about the protagonist's comment about already knowing Kathleen?
(a) Kathleen does not seem to recognize him.
(b) He and Kathleen have never met.
(c) They have not seen each other in over twenty years.
(d) He has only met her once before.

5. Why does the protagonist have to go to another hospital?
(a) The first hospital's staff tells him they have no room.
(b) His insurance is not accepted by the first hospital.
(c) He does not like the first hospital.
(d) The first one believes he cannot be saved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite the efforts of his girlfriend and others, what does the main character find himself doing?

2. What does he want to do?

3. With whom is the protagonist?

4. Who does Shimon see, with whom he is already acquainted?

5. What does Kathleen try to convince him to do?

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