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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the nurse give the patient?
(a) Water.
(b) Two injections.
(c) A hug.
(d) Dinner.

2. What is the original French title of the book?
(a) "L'Accident (Accident)."
(b) "La Nuit (Night)."
(c) "Le Soir (Evening)."
(d) "Le Jour (Day)."

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

4. What has happened to this person at the box office?
(a) She is excited for the protagonist.
(b) He is surprised and happy to see Kathleen and the protagonist together.
(c) He has been quickly and casually dismissed.
(d) He is going to see a movie.

5. Why does Halina do this?
(a) She does not like Kathleen.
(b) To introduce Kathleen to the protagonist.
(c) She does not want to bother Kathleen on her date.
(d) She wants to say hello to Kathleen.

6. What happens after he asks the doctor to show her in?
(a) They speak for just a moment.
(b) She does not enter.
(c) He tells her of the memory of his grandmother.
(d) They talk for many hours.

7. What is this woman doing?
(a) Sitting on a bench.
(b) Waiting in line to see a movie.
(c) Talking on a pay phone.
(d) Kathleen is on a date.

8. How are strangers like stars?
(a) They are not committed to you.
(b) There are many of them.
(c) They will guide you.
(d) The are famous.

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

10. What happens while the protagonist is standing at an intersection?
(a) He jumps in front of a cab.
(b) A cab plows into him and drags him several feet.
(c) He is shot in a drive-by shooting.
(d) He hails a cab.

11. Despite what does the stranger stay with him?
(a) The cold weather.
(b) The darkness.
(c) The protagonist's ill humor and his obvious desire to be alone.
(d) The protagonist's complaint that he can not dance.

12. How does the stranger surprise him?
(a) "You are the saddest person I have ever known."
(b) "You are the best man I have ever met."
(c) "You are a saint."
(d) "You must know this. I think I am going to hate you."

13. What does the protagonist remember about his first evening with Kathleen?
(a) They are seated in a movie theatre.
(b) They are eating hamburgers.
(c) They are walking through New York City.
(d) They are seated in her home in Paris.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can he not have a drink?

2. 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.

3. With what does he grapple?

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

5. What has this accident set off?

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