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

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

3. What does the protagonist tell the stranger?
(a) A little bit about his life.
(b) His life in recent years.
(c) Everything about his childhood, his grandmother, his teacher, and his dreams.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

6. What does his grandma tell him the presence of God will do?
(a) Fight off evil.
(b) Comfort him.
(c) Keep them warm in the grave.
(d) Be with her always.

7. What does Shimon convince the protagonist to do?
(a) Go home.
(b) Go in his stead.
(c) Date Halina.
(d) Accompany him.

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

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

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

11. What happens when his pleas for mercy go unheard?
(a) The man is escorted out of the prison camp.
(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) He is shot by the Nazis.

12. With whom is the protagonist?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His girlfriend, Kathleen.
(d) His friend, Shimon Yanai.

13. 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.
(a) A teacher.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A journalist.

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

15. Why does he believe his grandmother is waiting outside?
(a) He thinks he hears her voice.
(b) He is trapped between the past and the present.
(c) He can see her in the doorway.
(d) The doctor tells him his grandmother is outside.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does he tell her that he will dream?

2. Why does Kathleen convince him to do this?

3. When does the protagonist realize it is not his grandmother waiting for him?

4. What happens after he asks the doctor to show her in?

5. How does this section begin?

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