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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 memory does this trigger?
(a) A voyage he took to South America after the war.
(b) His bar mitzvah.
(c) A school day many years before.
(d) A day spent with his grandmother.

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

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

4. What does the protagonist do when Kathleen attempts to start a conversation?
(a) He joins in the conversation.
(b) He listens to her.
(c) He cuts her off.
(d) He stops her.

5. What does the grandmother say when the young boy asks when God dies?
(a) God dies in all of us.
(b) God has already died.
(c) God will send his Son to die for us.
(d) God does not die.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are strangers like stars?

2. Who has Kathleen left standing at the box office?

3. What does the stranger recall?

4. In the first section of the novel, where is the protagonist with his girlfriend, Kathleen?

5. Why does he feel this way when he eats the hamburger?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the protagonist's first evening with Kathleen.

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

3. To what does the protagonist wake up?

4. What does the protagonist criticize in the first section of the novel?

5. How does the scene end?

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

7. Of what does this insatiable feeling remind him?

8. Describe the details of the accident.

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

10. To what does the title refer?

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