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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Why does the protagonist have to go to another hospital?
(a) His insurance is not accepted by the first hospital.
(b) He does not like the first hospital.
(c) The first hospital's staff tells him they have no room.
(d) The first one believes he cannot be saved.

4. He notices the passersby, and what does he remark to himself?
(a) How beautiful they are.
(b) How he wishes he could be so content.
(c) Where they are all headed.
(d) How haggard everybody looks.

5. The title of the novel refers to what type of accident?
(a) Theft.
(b) Miscommunication.
(c) Cab.
(d) Medical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does his grandma tell him the presence of God will do?

2. What does the main character think is impossible to find?

3. What has happened to this person at the box office?

4. What do the two of them do without talking?

5. Why does he feel this way when he eats the hamburger?

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