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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the doctor say about Kathleen?
(a) He is now dating her.
(b) She is odd.
(c) How extraordinary she is.
(d) She is no longer coming to visit.

2. Despite their constant companionship, what happens to Kathleen?
(a) She does not like Eliezer.
(b) She is bored.
(c) She becomes more and more depressed.
(d) She feels lonely.

3. What does Eliezer go on to say?
(a) His mother is dead.
(b) He cannot find his mother.
(c) He does not know what happened to his mother.
(d) His mother abandoned him.

4. What does she say when he asks her what is wrong?
(a) She is afraid.
(b) She has never done this before.
(c) She does not know him.
(d) She pretends it is nothing.

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

6. To whom does the protagonist tell this story?
(a) Shimon.
(b) Haline.
(c) Kathleen.
(d) The doctor.

7. If he truly loved her, what would he not have to do?
(a) Leave.
(b) Force the words from his mouth.
(c) Show it.
(d) Say it.

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

9. Who comes to visit just before Kathleen arrives?
(a) Haline.
(b) Three of the protagonist's colleagues.
(c) His father.
(d) Shimon.

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

11. What is the result of Kathleen trying to change him?
(a) He has been transformed.
(b) She has become stronger.
(c) He has transformed her.
(d) She is more confident.

12. What has the protagonist learned to do well?
(a) Love.
(b) Tell the truth.
(c) Keep his thoughts to himself.
(d) Lie.

13. What does she ask him after she moves closer and sits down with him?
(a) If he wants to make love.
(b) If he wants to go to dinner.
(c) If he likes her.
(d) If he could read her a story.

14. What does she do when she senses his sudden change of heart?
(a) She asks him to leave.
(b) She begins to cry.
(c) She puts her clothes back on.
(d) She takes off her clothes and lies down on the bed in her underwear.

15. Where is he reading?
(a) The livingroom.
(b) In a cafe.
(c) A library.
(d) A cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the doctor and the protagonist spend a few moments doing?

2. What happens to him, after a while?

3. What does he do when the nurse hands him a mirror?

4. What does Kathleen know when he says he will?

5. What does the protagonist do?

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