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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Shimon convince the protagonist to do?
(a) Go home.
(b) Date Halina.
(c) Accompany him.
(d) Go in his stead.

3. Why does she ask him to tell her about himself?
(a) She does not want to talk.
(b) She wants to find out what is wrong with him.
(c) She likes to hear his voice.
(d) She wants to know him.

4. Some time later, what does the protagonist recall for what the same man is pleading?
(a) A new hamburger.
(b) His life with the people who share his barracks.
(c) A chance to serve in a restaurant.
(d) Another meal.

5. Who is Shimon on his way to meet?
(a) Kathleen.
(b) The protagonist.
(c) His new boss.
(d) A woman named Halina.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the protagonist's silent reverie broken?

2. What does the grandmother say when the young boy asks when God dies?

3. Why does the protagonist steal some money?

4. After he awakens, to what does he find himself attached?

5. The main character is _______________ whose own experiences during the holocaust have left him, like many others, with a strong sense of despair and self-loathing.

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