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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. With whom is the protagonist?
(a) His girlfriend, Kathleen.
(b) His friend, Shimon Yanai.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.
2. What happens when his pleas for mercy go unheard?
(a) The young boy finds the same man hanging from the rafters of the barracks.
(b) He is shot by the Nazis.
(c) The man is escorted out of the prison camp.
(d) The boy tells him to run for his life.
3. What does the man not look up to see?
(a) The others in the barracks also wanting food.
(b) The young boy in front of him.
(c) The Germans watching him.
(d) The young boy eating a hamburger.
4. Where does his mind wander?
(a) To the first time he met Kathleen.
(b) To a conversation with his grandmother when he is a young boy.
(c) To Kathleen's former date.
(d) To his friends.
5. What experience does the stranger relate to him?
(a) When he first learned to dance.
(b) When he found himself staring at the sea.
(c) When he jumped into the water.
(d) When he had his bar mitzvah.
6. Why does he tell her he does not want to talk about himself?
(a) He is embarrassed to be the center of attention.
(b) He wants to first know about her.
(c) He is shy.
(d) If he did she would only hate him.
7. What does he want to do?
(a) See the city skyline.
(b) Go home.
(c) See a mystery.
(d) Go to nicer restaurant.
8. 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 dance.
(d) He does not want to talk.
9. Why does Halina do this?
(a) To introduce Kathleen to the protagonist.
(b) She does not like Kathleen.
(c) She wants to say hello to Kathleen.
(d) She does not want to bother Kathleen on her date.
10. What is causing this insatiable thirst?
(a) The medication in the IVs.
(b) He has not had water in over twenty-four hours.
(c) His memory of his grandmother.
(d) An intense fever due to an infection.
11. To whom does he run?
(a) His teacher.
(b) His mother.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His grandmother.
12. What happens when she is also crying out for water?
(a) He gives her water.
(b) She must go searching for water.
(c) She will vomit if she has water.
(d) Nobody is there to quench her thirst.
13. 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 invites Kathleen to dinner.
(d) The protagonist and Kathleen say goodbye to each other.
14. When does the protagonist realize it is not his grandmother waiting for him?
(a) When the doctor mentions Kathleen by name.
(b) When he hears Kathleen's voice.
(c) When he remembers his grandmother is dead.
(d) When the stranger walks in the room.
15. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has happened to this person at the box office?
2. In the first section of the novel, where is the protagonist with his girlfriend, Kathleen?
3. What is before them?
4. What does his grandma tell him the presence of God will do?
5. Despite the efforts of his girlfriend and others, what does the main character find himself doing?
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