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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he want to do?
(a) Dance like the others.
(b) Play on the swingset.
(c) Be the character in the book.
(d) Jump in and drown.

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

3. With what does he grapple?
(a) His urge to end his life while simultaneously recovering from a near-death experience.
(b) His desire to tell the police not to come.
(c) His urge to turn off the alarm, yet keep it ringing.
(d) His desire to end the war he has just begun.

4. Why can he not have a drink?
(a) He is on IVs.
(b) There is no water available.
(c) It will make him vomit.
(d) He is about to go into surgery.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the protagonist suddenly feel a strong desire to do?

3. What has this accident set off?

4. Why does Kathleen convince him to do this?

5. What happens as Kathleen and her boyfriend attempt to eat a hamburger?

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