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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) There was nothing else to eat.
(d) He likes meat.

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

3. 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.

4. What memory does this trigger?
(a) A school day many years before.
(b) A voyage he took to South America after the war.
(c) A day spent with his grandmother.
(d) His bar mitzvah.

5. What does his grandma tell him the presence of God will do?
(a) Comfort him.
(b) Be with her always.
(c) Fight off evil.
(d) Keep them warm in the grave.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the protagonist tell this story?

2. He notices the passersby, and what does he remark to himself?

3. How does the stranger surprise him?

4. What does the main character think is impossible to find?

5. With what is the protagonist suddenly gripped?

(see the answer key)

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