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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 happening in his memory of the concentration camp?
(a) A man is eating a large chunk of raw meat.
(b) The Nazis are eating a delicious steak dinner.
(c) A man gives him his dinner.
(d) The Nazis are taunting him with food.

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

3. Some time later, what does the protagonist recall for what the same man is pleading?
(a) Another meal.
(b) His life with the people who share his barracks.
(c) A chance to serve in a restaurant.
(d) A new hamburger.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the man in the concentration camp try to justify his actions?

2. What causes him to think about his grandmother in this way?

3. What happens moments later?

4. By what is he troubled?

5. The title of the novel refers to what type of accident?

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