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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when she is also crying out for water?
(a) She must go searching for water.
(b) Nobody is there to quench her thirst.
(c) She will vomit if she has water.
(d) He gives her water.

2. What does the man not look up to see?
(a) The others in the barracks also wanting food.
(b) The Germans watching him.
(c) The young boy in front of him.
(d) The young boy eating a hamburger.

3. Why does he believe his grandmother is waiting outside?
(a) The doctor tells him his grandmother is outside.
(b) He can see her in the doorway.
(c) He is trapped between the past and the present.
(d) He thinks he hears her voice.

4. What should one not look at too long?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Their souls.
(c) The dark.
(d) The sea.

5. With whom is the protagonist?
(a) His girlfriend, Kathleen.
(b) His friend, Shimon Yanai.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

6. What happens after he asks the doctor to show her in?
(a) They talk for many hours.
(b) They speak for just a moment.
(c) She does not enter.
(d) He tells her of the memory of his grandmother.

7. When does the protagonist realize it is not his grandmother waiting for him?
(a) When he hears Kathleen's voice.
(b) When he remembers his grandmother is dead.
(c) When the doctor mentions Kathleen by name.
(d) When the stranger walks in the room.

8. What does Kathleen try to convince him to do?
(a) Go to a movie.
(b) Eat something.
(c) Rest.
(d) Go home.

9. What is happening in his memory of the concentration camp?
(a) A man is eating a large chunk of raw meat.
(b) The Nazis are taunting him with food.
(c) A man gives him his dinner.
(d) The Nazis are eating a delicious steak dinner.

10. Into what does he see his grandmother crammed?
(a) A closet.
(b) A coffin.
(c) A too-tight space with too many other bodies.
(d) A grave.

11. By what is he troubled?
(a) Ditching his friends.
(b) Kathleen's ability to forget her first date.
(c) This first date with Kathleen.
(d) The concept of death.

12. Why does the protagonist make an excuse to leave?
(a) He does not like Halina.
(b) He is not feeling well.
(c) He is not interested in Kathleen.
(d) He is anxious to escape conversation.

13. Who has Kathleen left standing at the box office?
(a) The protagonist.
(b) Her original date.
(c) Shimon.
(d) Halina.

14. What does the protagonist remember about his first evening with Kathleen?
(a) They are walking through New York City.
(b) They are eating hamburgers.
(c) They are seated in her home in Paris.
(d) They are seated in a movie theatre.

15. What does he want to do?
(a) Be the character in the book.
(b) Play on the swingset.
(c) Dance like the others.
(d) Jump in and drown.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does this section begin?

2. Of what does he tell her that he will dream?

3. What does the stranger recall?

4. Who is Shimon on his way to meet?

5. Why does the protagonist have to go to another hospital?

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