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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 grandmother say when the young boy asks when God dies?
(a) God does not die.
(b) God has already died.
(c) God will send his Son to die for us.
(d) God dies in all of us.

2. Who does Shimon see, with whom he is already acquainted?
(a) Kathleen.
(b) The protagonist.
(c) Gyula.
(d) Halina.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does he grapple?

2. What horrifies the boy?

3. When is the protagonist's silent reverie broken?

4. What is before them?

5. Who holds the protagonist and sobs in his memory?

(see the answer key)

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