2. What does the man not look up to see?
(a) The young boy in front of him.
(b) The young boy eating a hamburger.
(c) The others in the barracks also wanting food.
(d) The Germans watching him.

3. Why does she ask him to tell her about himself?
(a) She wants to find out what is wrong with him.
(b) She likes to hear his voice.
(c) She wants to know him.
(d) She does not want to talk.

4. What causes him to think about his grandmother in this way?
(a) The small closet by his bed.
(b) He believes he will die soon.
(c) The darkness of his room.
(d) When the doctor tells him he is thirsty due a fever from an infection.

5. What does the nurse promise?
(a) He will sleep and not be thirsty.
(b) His memories will be gone soon.
(c) He will not live through the night.
(d) He will feel no pain.

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

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

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

9. With what does he grapple?
(a) His desire to tell the police not to come.
(b) His urge to turn off the alarm, yet keep it ringing.
(c) His urge to end his life while simultaneously recovering from a near-death experience.
(d) His desire to end the war he has just begun.

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

11. What is causing this insatiable thirst?
(a) An intense fever due to an infection.
(b) He has not had water in over twenty-four hours.
(c) The medication in the IVs.
(d) His memory of his grandmother.

12. Where does his mind wander?
(a) To the first time he met Kathleen.
(b) To his friends.
(c) To Kathleen's former date.
(d) To a conversation with his grandmother when he is a young boy.

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

14. What has this accident set off?
(a) The police.
(b) An alarm.
(c) A series of memories.
(d) A war.

15. How does this section begin?
(a) On a cool fall Chicago night.
(b) On a cold and windy Paris night.
(c) On a warm, still night in New York.
(d) On a cold and snowy day in London.