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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Despite the efforts of his girlfriend and others, what does the main character find himself doing?
(a) Withdrawing from life.
(b) Becoming bored.
(c) Moving from city to city.
(d) Wanting new friends.

3. 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 taunting him with food.
(c) A man gives him his dinner.
(d) The Nazis are eating a delicious steak dinner.

4. 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) He is shot by the Nazis.
(d) The man is escorted out of the prison camp.

5. What does Kathleen try to convince him to do?
(a) Go home.
(b) Eat something.
(c) Rest.
(d) Go to a movie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is causing this insatiable thirst?

2. What does the man not look up to see?

3. How does the stranger surprise him?

4. He notices the passersby, and what does he remark to himself?

5. How are strangers like stars?

(see the answer key)

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