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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. What frightens him most?

2. What is her response when he finally asks her if she knows him?

3. How does he reply?

4. What does the doctor tell the protagonist took place during the surgery?

5. Why does Kathleen wonder about the identity of Sarah?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the doctor say about Kathleen?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Kathleen begin to cry?

8. What would happen if the protagonist did not do what the teacher told him to do?

9. Why is the protagonist not able to make love to the girl?

10. How do Kathleen and the protagonist feel about one another?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

The smell of meat reminds the protagonist of previous events.

Part 1) Describe these events. Why do these events occur?

Part 2) How do these events reveal the horrors of the holocaust?

Part 3) Can you relate to this kind of trauma? Why or why not?

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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