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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 this person waiting to do?
(a) Leave the protagonist.
(b) Give the protagonist more medication.
(c) Talk to the doctor.
(d) See the protagonist.

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

3. After he awakens, to what does he find himself attached?
(a) Several needles.
(b) A monitor.
(c) Kathleen.
(d) A bed.

4. The main character is _______________ whose own experiences during the holocaust have left him, like many others, with a strong sense of despair and self-loathing.
(a) A teacher.
(b) An engineer.
(c) A journalist.
(d) A scientist.

5. What happens as Kathleen and her boyfriend attempt to eat a hamburger?
(a) He eats the entire thing.
(b) She does not let him have any of it.
(c) She finds herself disgusted by the smell of the meat.
(d) He finds himself disgusted by the smell of the meat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has this accident set off?

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

3. What is THE ACCIDENT?

4. What does the protagonist remember about his first evening with Kathleen?

5. What is the nurse's response?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the memory that is triggered by the hamburger.

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

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

4. What does the protagonist realize years later about his grandmother?

5. To what does the protagonist wake up?

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

7. How does this section begin?

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

9. Describe the story and the main character.

10. What does this time with Kathleen trigger?

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