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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does she ask him after she moves closer and sits down with him?
(a) If he wants to make love.
(b) If he wants to go to dinner.
(c) If he could read her a story.
(d) If he likes her.

4. What does she know he will continue to do?
(a) Be in love with her.
(b) Drift back to the place where she cannot reach him.
(c) Annoy her.
(d) Depress her.

5. How does the doctor react to the story?
(a) He is somewhat surprised.
(b) He is calm and understanding.
(c) He is very frustrated and does not understand.
(d) He is very angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to visit just before Kathleen arrives?

2. What happens If he forgets to do this?

3. What happens to him, after a while?

4. Why does she respond this way?

5. What does a teacher tell him will happen three days after he has died?

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