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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the nurse's response?
(a) His grandmother will help him heal.
(b) She will give him a shot against his dreams.
(c) He is very sweet to think of her.
(d) That is very sweet.

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

3. The main character is _______________ whose own experiences during the holocaust have left him, like many others, with a strong sense of despair and self-loathing.
(a) An engineer.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A journalist.
(d) A teacher.

4. What does the protagonist vow?
(a) He will not forget his grandmother's words.
(b) Each time he feels the cold he will remember his grandmother's ashes.
(c) He will pray to God in his grandmother's memory.
(d) Each time he feels the cold he will remember his grandmother's comforting message.

5. Why does he believe his grandmother is waiting outside?
(a) He can see her in the doorway.
(b) He is trapped between the past and the present.
(c) He thinks he hears her voice.
(d) The doctor tells him his grandmother is outside.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does he tell the nurse that he wants an injection to take away?

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

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

5. What is the original French title of the book?

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