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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. How are strangers like stars?
(a) They are not committed to you.
(b) The are famous.
(c) They will guide you.
(d) There are many of them.

2. What is the protagonist standing alone doing?
(a) Staring at the sea.
(b) Watching the others dance.
(c) Looking out into the backyard.
(d) Reading a book.

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

4. With whom is the protagonist?
(a) His father.
(b) His girlfriend, Kathleen.
(c) His friend, Shimon Yanai.
(d) His mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he want to do?

2. Why does Kathleen convince him to do this?

3. Leaving the meal uneaten, what do the protagonist and Kathleen discuss?

4. How does this section begin?

5. How does the man in the concentration camp try to justify his actions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens right before the accident?

2. What happens, moments after the protagonist and Kathleen meet?

3. Why does the protagonist believe his grandmother is outside his room?

4. Of what does this insatiable feeling remind him?

5. How does the protagonist meet Kathleen?

6. What memory does he then recall?

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

8. How does this section begin?

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

10. What does this time with Kathleen trigger?

(see the answer keys)

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