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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has happened to this person at the box office?
(a) He has been quickly and casually dismissed.
(b) He is surprised and happy to see Kathleen and the protagonist together.
(c) She is excited for the protagonist.
(d) He is going to see a movie.

3. What does he want to do?
(a) See a mystery.
(b) Go home.
(c) See the city skyline.
(d) Go to nicer restaurant.

4. How does the man in the concentration camp try to justify his actions?
(a) He likes meat.
(b) He will share.
(c) There was nothing else to eat.
(d) Says that the person he ate was already dead.

5. What happens when his pleas for mercy go unheard?
(a) He is shot by the Nazis.
(b) The man is escorted out of the prison camp.
(c) The young boy finds the same man hanging from the rafters of the barracks.
(d) The boy tells him to run for his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first section of the novel, where is the protagonist with his girlfriend, Kathleen?

2. What does Kathleen try to convince him to do?

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

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

5. What does Shimon convince the protagonist to do?

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