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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does he think about this question?
(a) He is not hungry.
(b) He is not sure why she wants a story read to her.
(c) He thinks she is very pretty.
(d) People make love at night, not in the middle of the day.

2. What is the protagonist standing alone doing?
(a) Watching the others dance.
(b) Reading a book.
(c) Staring at the sea.
(d) Looking out into the backyard.

3. By what is he troubled?
(a) This first date with Kathleen.
(b) Ditching his friends.
(c) Kathleen's ability to forget her first date.
(d) The concept of death.

4. The main character is _______________ whose own experiences during the holocaust have left him, like many others, with a strong sense of despair and self-loathing.
(a) A journalist.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A teacher.
(d) An engineer.

5. How does the man in the concentration camp try to justify his actions?
(a) There was nothing else to eat.
(b) He likes meat.
(c) Says that the person he ate was already dead.
(d) He will share.

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of the novel refers to what type of accident?

2. What does she say when he asks her what is wrong?

3. What does his teacher tell him to say?

4. What is Kathleen doing?

5. What does Kathleen ask Eliezer one night while they are in bed together?

(see the answer key)

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