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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does she want him to promise?
(a) He will not forget his grandmother.
(b) He will not return.
(c) He will not see her again.
(d) He will think only of her and her love.

2. What does he think about this question?
(a) People make love at night, not in the middle of the day.
(b) He is not sure why she wants a story read to her.
(c) He thinks she is very pretty.
(d) He is not hungry.

3. How are Kathleen and Eliezer?
(a) Together.
(b) No longer together.
(c) Strangers.
(d) In an argument.

4. What does the protagonist do when he and the girl go to her room?
(a) He checks himself out in the mirror.
(b) He leaves the door unlocked.
(c) He goes into the bathroom.
(d) He locks the door.

5. What does Kathleen tell Eliezer?
(a) She does not love him.
(b) She wants to leave.
(c) She does not care about him.
(d) She loves him.

6. Of what does the protagonist want to make sure?
(a) The cab company will not sue him.
(b) The driver does not have to suffer for the accident.
(c) The driver is okay.
(d) He will live.

7. What is Kathleen's response to this story?
(a) She does not want to hear any more.
(b) She cries.
(c) She is surprised.
(d) She likes the name Sarah.

8. What does she tell him she has found?
(a) A new lawyer to sue the cab company.
(b) Something he dropped in the street.
(c) Better doctors.
(d) A new apartment.

9. What does the protagonist do?
(a) He locks the door.
(b) He takes her hand in his.
(c) He kisses her gently.
(d) He moves to her and roughly pulls her toward him, and then he kisses her.

10. What happens to him, after a while?
(a) He becomes embarrassed.
(b) He leaves.
(c) He wonders what has happened to Kathleen.
(d) He becomes interested in her.

11. Why does Kathleen wonder about the identity of Sarah?
(a) She heard him say the name Sarah when he was in a coma.
(b) She is jealous of Sarah.
(c) She has never heard this name before.
(d) Her sister's name is Sarah.

12. What is significant about this point in the story?
(a) Kathleen finally reacts to the protagonist's words.
(b) This is the first point in the novel where the protagonist is mentioned by name.
(c) The protagonist has finally told Kathleen everything.
(d) Kathleen does not want to hear any more of the protagonist's stories.

13. What frightens him most?
(a) He will not know what he is doing.
(b) She will not like him.
(c) She will call the police.
(d) He will be different afterward.

14. With what is the protagonist suddenly gripped?
(a) Uncertainty.
(b) Fear.
(c) Anger.
(d) Love.

15. What does he do when the nurse hands him a mirror?
(a) He holds it in her face.
(b) He cries.
(c) He looks into it.
(d) He threatens to break it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she do when she senses his sudden change of heart?

2. What does the protagonist want to say to the doctor?

3. What does he know from movies he has seen?

4. What has happened, just as Eliezer feared?

5. What does the teacher tell him is a serious thing?

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