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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom does he run?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His teacher.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His mother.

3. What feels like fire?
(a) Hsi hands.
(b) His throat.
(c) His head.
(d) Medicine running through his veins.

4. What is happening in his memory of the concentration camp?
(a) The Nazis are taunting him with food.
(b) A man gives him his dinner.
(c) A man is eating a large chunk of raw meat.
(d) The Nazis are eating a delicious steak dinner.

5. What does the protagonist vow?
(a) He will pray to God in his grandmother's memory.
(b) Each time he feels the cold he will remember his grandmother's ashes.
(c) He will not forget his grandmother's words.
(d) Each time he feels the cold he will remember his grandmother's comforting message.

6. What is Kathleen determined to see?
(a) The Brothers Karamazov.
(b) The city skyline.
(c) The protagonist eat a meal.
(d) Her family.

7. What does Halina do?
(a) Ignores Kathleen.
(b) Taps Kathleen on the shoulder.
(c) Turns to walk the other way.
(d) Calls Kathleen over.

8. Who has Kathleen left standing at the box office?
(a) The protagonist.
(b) Her original date.
(c) Halina.
(d) Shimon.

9. What does the stranger never do?
(a) Stop the protagonist or ask for clarification.
(b) Leave.
(c) Listen to his story.
(d) Stop talking.

10. Who holds the protagonist and sobs in his memory?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His teacher.
(d) His friend.

11. 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.

12. Why does Kathleen convince him to do this?
(a) He looks tired.
(b) He admits to having eaten nothing all day.
(c) He needs to sleep.
(d) He needs a break from reality.

13. What is before them?
(a) Two cups.
(b) The hamburgers.
(c) The movie screen.
(d) Central Park.

14. What happens when his pleas for mercy go unheard?
(a) He is shot by the Nazis.
(b) The young boy finds the same man hanging from the rafters of the barracks.
(c) The boy tells him to run for his life.
(d) The man is escorted out of the prison camp.

15. Who is Shimon on his way to meet?
(a) The protagonist.
(b) His new boss.
(c) Kathleen.
(d) A woman named Halina.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leaving the meal uneaten, what do the protagonist and Kathleen discuss?

2. What does Kathleen try to convince him to do?

3. What happens moments later?

4. What does the protagonist remember about his first evening with Kathleen?

5. What does the stranger standing next to him in the dark do?

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