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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has this accident set off?
(a) A war.
(b) An alarm.
(c) The police.
(d) A series of memories.

2. What does Halina do?
(a) Taps Kathleen on the shoulder.
(b) Turns to walk the other way.
(c) Calls Kathleen over.
(d) Ignores Kathleen.

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

4. What does the stranger recall?
(a) How he wanted to feel the cold water on his body.
(b) How nervous he was to dance.
(c) How the sea called to him to end it all by jumping in.
(d) How memorable his mar mitzvah was.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor believe is the difference between him and the protagonist?

2. What does he begin to tell the stranger?

3. The title of the novel refers to what type of accident?

4. What does the protagonist remember just as the doctor tells him that "she" is waiting outside?

5. What does Shimon convince the protagonist to do?

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