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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. What is the original French title of the book?
(a) "L'Accident (Accident)."
(b) "Le Soir (Evening)."
(c) "La Nuit (Night)."
(d) "Le Jour (Day)."

2. What happens after he asks the doctor to show her in?
(a) They talk for many hours.
(b) She does not enter.
(c) They speak for just a moment.
(d) He tells her of the memory of his grandmother.

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

4. He notices the passersby, and what does he remark to himself?
(a) How he wishes he could be so content.
(b) Where they are all headed.
(c) How haggard everybody looks.
(d) How beautiful they are.

5. What does the protagonist remember about his first evening with Kathleen?
(a) They are seated in her home in Paris.
(b) They are walking through New York City.
(c) They are seated in a movie theatre.
(d) They are eating hamburgers.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does he run?

2. What does the man not look up to see?

3. When does the protagonist realize it is not his grandmother waiting for him?

4. Why does Halina do this?

5. What does the protagonist remember just as the doctor tells him that "she" is waiting outside?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To what does the protagonist wake up?

3. What happens once the protagonist is admitted into the hospital?

4. How does the scene end?

5. How does the protagonist meet Kathleen?

6. What happens when the protagonist tries to eat a hamburger?

7. What memory does he then recall?

8. Describe the story and the main character.

9. What does this time with Kathleen trigger?

10. What does he tell the nurse? What is her response? Why does he feel this way?

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