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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When is the protagonist's silent reverie broken?
(a) When Kathleen kisses him.
(b) When a loud noise is heard.
(c) When the story in his mind ends.
(d) Kathleen tells him she is getting cold.

3. What does he begin to tell the stranger?
(a) The story of his life.
(b) He does not want to dance.
(c) He does not want to talk.
(d) He wants to jump in the water.

4. What happens as Kathleen and her boyfriend attempt to eat a hamburger?
(a) She does not let him have any of it.
(b) He finds himself disgusted by the smell of the meat.
(c) He eats the entire thing.
(d) She finds herself disgusted by the smell of the meat.

5. He notices the passersby, and what does he remark to himself?
(a) How haggard everybody looks.
(b) Where they are all headed.
(c) How he wishes he could be so content.
(d) How beautiful they are.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist remember about his first evening with Kathleen?

2. What experience does the stranger relate to him?

3. With what does he grapple?

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

5. What does the protagonist tell the stranger?

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