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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does he run?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His teacher.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His mother.

2. What is causing this insatiable thirst?
(a) He has not had water in over twenty-four hours.
(b) His memory of his grandmother.
(c) An intense fever due to an infection.
(d) The medication in the IVs.

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

4. What is he unable to explain to his father about the stolen money?
(a) He likes to steal money.
(b) He feels guilty telling his father he stole it for him.
(c) He is desperately in need of money.
(d) He feels guilt because his own parents are alive.

5. Eventually, what does the protagonist come to realize?
(a) The stranger is just like him.
(b) It is safe to speak to the stranger.
(c) The stranger is very odd.
(d) The stranger wants to push him in the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What memory does this trigger?

2. Where does his mind wander?

3. When is the protagonist's silent reverie broken?

4. What happens when his pleas for mercy go unheard?

5. What causes him to think about his grandmother in this way?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the protagonist tell the stranger? How does the stranger respond?

2. Describe the scene between the protagonist and the stranger.

3. To what does the title refer?

4. What happens when Kathleen tries to talk to the protagonist?

5. Why does the protagonist begin to tell the stranger his story?

6. How does this section begin?

7. How does the protagonist react to the stranger's honesty?

8. What is significant about this meeting between the protagonist and Kathleen?

9. To whom does he run in this memory? What does this person do?

10. What does the protagonist vow? What ends his memory?

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