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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does the protagonist awaken?

2. Why can he not have a drink?

3. Who is Shimon on his way to meet?

4. What is happening in his memory of the concentration camp?

5. How does this section begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story and the main character.

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

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

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

5. How does this section begin?

6. Of what does this insatiable feeling remind him?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kathleen tells the doctor that she loves the protagonist, and the doctor replies that sometimes love is stronger than prayer.

Part 1) What does this foreshadow?

Part 2) Do you agree with the doctor? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is this love destructive? Why is it destructive?

Essay Topic 2

Shimon, the protagonist's friend, considers him a saint.

Part 1) Why does he consider him a saint? How does the protagonist feel about this?

Part 2) How does the protagonist mimic this thought later in the novel?

Part 3) Compare the person and reaction later in the novel to his reaction to being called a saint.

Part 4) What is the connection between this and the stranger on the ship and Gyula?

Essay Topic 3

The author's description of the passersby on the street is bleak.

Part 1) Describe these people. Do they look like this in reality? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does this foreshadow the feeling of the rest of the novel?

Part 3) Describe a time when your emotions affected your take on your surroundings.

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