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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What experience does the stranger relate to him?
(a) When he jumped into the water.
(b) When he first learned to dance.
(c) When he had his bar mitzvah.
(d) When he found himself staring at the sea.

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

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

4. What causes him to think about his grandmother in this way?
(a) When the doctor tells him he is thirsty due a fever from an infection.
(b) The darkness of his room.
(c) The small closet by his bed.
(d) He believes he will die soon.

5. Leaving the meal uneaten, what do the protagonist and Kathleen discuss?
(a) The time.
(b) Where they should go next.
(c) The protagonist's inability to eat meat.
(d) Where to find a better meal.

6. Why does he tell her he does not want to talk about himself?
(a) If he did she would only hate him.
(b) He is embarrassed to be the center of attention.
(c) He is shy.
(d) He wants to first know about her.

7. What is THE ACCIDENT?
(a) The story of a war that took place due to a communication error.
(b) The story of a businessman and his corrupt business deal.
(c) The story of a Holocaust survivor struggling to adjust to life after World War II.
(d) The story of a famous train wreck in the United States.

8. What is Kathleen determined to see?
(a) The Brothers Karamazov.
(b) The city skyline.
(c) The protagonist eat a meal.
(d) Her family.

9. 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) He tells her of the memory of his grandmother.
(d) She does not enter.

10. 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.

11. What does the grandmother say when the young boy asks when God dies?
(a) God has already died.
(b) God does not die.
(c) God dies in all of us.
(d) God will send his Son to die for us.

12. What is before them?
(a) Two cups.
(b) The hamburgers.
(c) Central Park.
(d) The movie screen.

13. What is this woman doing?
(a) Talking on a pay phone.
(b) Waiting in line to see a movie.
(c) Sitting on a bench.
(d) Kathleen is on a date.

14. What does he tell the nurse that he wants an injection to take away?
(a) His pain.
(b) His life.
(c) His thirst.
(d) His memories.

15. Where does his mind wander?
(a) To the first time he met Kathleen.
(b) To his friends.
(c) To Kathleen's former date.
(d) To a conversation with his grandmother when he is a young boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as Kathleen and her boyfriend attempt to eat a hamburger?

2. How does this section begin?

3. What does the stranger never do?

4. How are strangers like stars?

5. What happens while the protagonist is standing at an intersection?

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