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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he do when the nurse hands him a mirror?
(a) He looks into it.
(b) He cries.
(c) He threatens to break it.
(d) He holds it in her face.

2. With what does he grapple?
(a) His desire to end the war he has just begun.
(b) His urge to end his life while simultaneously recovering from a near-death experience.
(c) His desire to tell the police not to come.
(d) His urge to turn off the alarm, yet keep it ringing.

3. Who arrives to question the protagonist?
(a) The doctor.
(b) The lawyer.
(c) His father.
(d) The cab company.

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

5. How does the stranger surprise him?
(a) "You are the best man I have ever met."
(b) "You must know this. I think I am going to hate you."
(c) "You are a saint."
(d) "You are the saddest person I have ever known."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist do when Kathleen attempts to start a conversation?

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

3. What does she ask him when she catches him in such a moment?

4. To whom does the protagonist tell this story?

5. What is before them?

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