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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has Kathleen left standing at the box office?
(a) The protagonist.
(b) Halina.
(c) Shimon.
(d) Her original date.

2. What is this woman doing?
(a) Waiting in line to see a movie.
(b) Sitting on a bench.
(c) Kathleen is on a date.
(d) Talking on a pay phone.

3. What does the main character think is impossible to find?
(a) Any satisfaction in life.
(b) A place to call home.
(c) His family.
(d) A cure for cancer.

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

5. What happens when his pleas for mercy go unheard?
(a) The boy tells him to run for his life.
(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) He is shot by the Nazis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when she is also crying out for water?

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

3. Why does Halina do this?

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

5. What does the nurse promise?

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