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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Kathleen try to convince him to do?
(a) Rest.
(b) Eat something.
(c) Go to a movie.
(d) Go home.

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

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

6. Leaving the meal uneaten, what do the protagonist and Kathleen discuss?
(a) The protagonist's inability to eat meat.
(b) Where they should go next.
(c) Where to find a better meal.
(d) The time.

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

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

9. The title of the novel refers to what type of accident?
(a) Cab.
(b) Theft.
(c) Medical.
(d) Miscommunication.

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

11. What does the protagonist suddenly feel a strong desire to do?
(a) Tell the doctor the story of his grandmother.
(b) Go home.
(c) Die.
(d) See his grandmother.

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

13. What do the two of them do without talking?
(a) Stare at each other.
(b) Watch a movie.
(c) Walk for some time.
(d) Sit on a bench.

14. What does he want to do?
(a) Go home.
(b) Go to nicer restaurant.
(c) See the city skyline.
(d) See a mystery.

15. What does the stranger recall?
(a) How he wanted to feel the cold water on his body.
(b) How memorable his mar mitzvah was.
(c) How nervous he was to dance.
(d) How the sea called to him to end it all by jumping in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens between Kathleen and the protagonist?

2. What memory does this trigger?

3. Why does he tell her he does not want to talk about himself?

4. Into what does he see his grandmother crammed?

5. What does his grandma tell him the presence of God will do?

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