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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what is he troubled?
(a) Kathleen's ability to forget her first date.
(b) The concept of death.
(c) Ditching his friends.
(d) This first date with Kathleen.

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

3. What is Kathleen determined to see?
(a) The Brothers Karamazov.
(b) Her family.
(c) The city skyline.
(d) The protagonist eat a meal.

4. What does the protagonist do when Kathleen attempts to start a conversation?
(a) He cuts her off.
(b) He listens to her.
(c) He stops her.
(d) He joins in the conversation.

5. 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 cold weather.
(d) The protagonist's complaint that he can not dance.

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

7. Why does she ask him to tell her about himself?
(a) She does not want to talk.
(b) She wants to find out what is wrong with him.
(c) She likes to hear his voice.
(d) She wants to know him.

8. What experience does the stranger relate to him?
(a) When he had his bar mitzvah.
(b) When he first learned to dance.
(c) When he found himself staring at the sea.
(d) When he jumped into the water.

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

10. When he says nothing, what does his father do?
(a) Sends him to his room.
(b) Hits him.
(c) Hugs him.
(d) Storms out of the room.

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

12. What does he want to do?
(a) Jump in and drown.
(b) Dance like the others.
(c) Play on the swingset.
(d) Be the character in the book.

13. What should one not look at too long?
(a) Their souls.
(b) The sea.
(c) Their friends.
(d) The dark.

14. How does the man in the concentration camp try to justify his actions?
(a) There was nothing else to eat.
(b) He will share.
(c) He likes meat.
(d) Says that the person he ate was already dead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the protagonist vow?

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

3. What happens between Kathleen and the protagonist?

4. What does Kathleen try to convince him to do?

5. How does the stranger surprise him?

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