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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 the sea called to him to end it all by jumping in.
(c) How he wanted to feel the cold water on his body.
(d) How nervous he was to dance.

2. What does he tell the nurse that he wants an injection to take away?
(a) His pain.
(b) His thirst.
(c) His memories.
(d) His life.

3. What does the stranger standing next to him in the dark do?
(a) Starts a conversation.
(b) Push him in the water.
(c) Ask him to dance.
(d) Push him on the swing.

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

5. When does Halina stop him?
(a) Just before he crosses the street.
(b) Just as she notices another woman.
(c) Just as he hails a cab.
(d) Just as he is walking into a restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Halina do this?

2. What causes him to think about his grandmother in this way?

3. Some time later, what does the protagonist recall for what the same man is pleading?

4. To whom does he run?

5. Why does the protagonist have to go to another hospital?

(see the answer key)

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