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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is he unable to explain to his father about the stolen money?
(a) He feels guilty telling his father he stole it for him.
(b) He is desperately in need of money.
(c) He feels guilt because his own parents are alive.
(d) He likes to steal money.

2. What happens moments later?
(a) The protagonist and Kathleen are walking along the Seine together.
(b) The protagonist is hit by a cab.
(c) The protagonist and Kathleen say goodbye to each other.
(d) The protagonist invites Kathleen to dinner.

3. What is odd about the protagonist's comment about already knowing Kathleen?
(a) He has only met her once before.
(b) They have not seen each other in over twenty years.
(c) He and Kathleen have never met.
(d) Kathleen does not seem to recognize him.

4. What memory does this trigger?
(a) A voyage he took to South America after the war.
(b) A school day many years before.
(c) His bar mitzvah.
(d) A day spent with his grandmother.

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

6. What does the main character think is impossible to find?
(a) A place to call home.
(b) Any satisfaction in life.
(c) His family.
(d) A cure for cancer.

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

8. Why does the protagonist steal some money?
(a) He needs to pay his bills.
(b) To give to a small orphan boy.
(c) He is greedy.
(d) He wants to give money to his father.

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

10. Eventually, what does the protagonist come to realize?
(a) The stranger wants to push him in the water.
(b) The stranger is just like him.
(c) The stranger is very odd.
(d) It is safe to speak to the stranger.

11. What horrifies the boy?
(a) The thought that God has already died.
(b) The thought of God being buried alive.
(c) The thought of God's Son dying for us.
(d) The thought of God being immortal.

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

13. Why does he feel this way when he eats the hamburger?
(a) It reminds him of his childhood.
(b) It is so delicious.
(c) It reminds him of a much earlier time.
(d) He is so hungry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When he says nothing, what does his father do?

2. Into what does he see his grandmother crammed?

3. What experience does the stranger relate to him?

4. What does the grandmother say when the young boy asks when God dies?

5. What does the protagonist remember just as the doctor tells him that "she" is waiting outside?

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