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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 the stranger recall?
(a) How memorable his mar mitzvah was.
(b) How nervous he was to dance.
(c) How the sea called to him to end it all by jumping in.
(d) How he wanted to feel the cold water on his body.

2. Why does he believe his grandmother is waiting outside?
(a) He is trapped between the past and the present.
(b) The doctor tells him his grandmother is outside.
(c) He can see her in the doorway.
(d) He thinks he hears her voice.

3. What happens when she is also crying out for water?
(a) Nobody is there to quench her thirst.
(b) She must go searching for water.
(c) She will vomit if she has water.
(d) He gives her water.

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

5. Of what does he tell her that he will dream?
(a) Her.
(b) Kathleen.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) Thirst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is he unable to explain to his father about the stolen money?

2. What is happening in his memory of the concentration camp?

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

4. How does the stranger surprise him?

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

(see the answer key)

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