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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. Why is Kathleen staying in a posh hotel in New York City?

2. How does he reply?

3. Who arrives to question the protagonist?

4. How does the doctor react to the story?

5. What has happened, just as Eliezer feared?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the protagonist's story about his teacher.

2. What does the doctor say about Kathleen?

3. What is the protagonist's memory of Moishe?

4. What does Kathleen say, one night when they are in bed together?

5. What does the doctor tell the protagonist?

6. What does Kathleen ask the protagonist? What is his response?

7. How does this scene open?

8. What is Kathleen's response to this story?

9. Where can Kathleen not reach the protagonist? How does she deal with this?

10. What do the doctor and the protagonist say about the river?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The doctor knows the protagonist does not care about life.

Part 1) How does he know this? What is the protagonist's reaction? Why does he react this way?

Part 2) Why can the doctor not understand the protagonist's depression?

Part 3) With what is the doctor concerned? Should that be his only concern? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The protagonist is not named until Section 6.

Part 1) What is his name? Why is it not known until Section 6?

Part 2) What is the author's purpose for keeping him anonymous for over half of the novel?

Part 3) How might this reflect how both the author and main character feel about themselves?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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