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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens between Kathleen and the protagonist?
(a) A misunderstanding.
(b) Love at first sight.
(c) An argument.
(d) An instant recognition.

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

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

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

5. How does the stranger surprise him?
(a) "You are the best man I have ever met."
(b) "You are a saint."
(c) "You must know this. I think I am going to hate you."
(d) "You are the saddest person I have ever known."

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

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

8. What is happening in his memory of the concentration camp?
(a) The Nazis are eating a delicious steak dinner.
(b) The Nazis are taunting him with food.
(c) A man gives him his dinner.
(d) A man is eating a large chunk of raw meat.

9. Into what does he see his grandmother crammed?
(a) A closet.
(b) A coffin.
(c) A grave.
(d) A too-tight space with too many other bodies.

10. What happens as Kathleen and her boyfriend attempt to eat a hamburger?
(a) She finds herself disgusted by the smell of the meat.
(b) He finds himself disgusted by the smell of the meat.
(c) He eats the entire thing.
(d) She does not let him have any of it.

11. 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) A scientist.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A journalist.

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

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

14. When does Halina stop him?
(a) Just as she notices another woman.
(b) Just as he hails a cab.
(c) Just as he is walking into a restaurant.
(d) Just before he crosses the street.

15. Why does the protagonist have to go to another hospital?
(a) He does not like the first hospital.
(b) The first one believes he cannot be saved.
(c) His insurance is not accepted by the first hospital.
(d) The first hospital's staff tells him they have no room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has this accident set off?

2. Who holds the protagonist and sobs in his memory?

3. What does the stranger recall?

4. What does the protagonist vow?

5. What is Kathleen determined to see?

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