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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 does she say when he asks her what is wrong?

2. Where do the two of them go out at night?

3. What has happened, just as Eliezer feared?

4. How does the doctor react to the story?

5. With what is the protagonist suddenly gripped?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist respond to the woman's request?

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

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

4. What does the doctor tell the protagonist?

5. How has this traumatic experience affected the girl?

6. Who arrives before Kathleen? Describe their behavior. How does the protagonist respond to this.

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

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

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

10. What is Eliezer's memory about the train station?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When, in section 2, Kathleen and the protagonist meet for the first time, the protagonist says, "But we already know each other."

Part 1) In what way do they know each other?

Part 2) How do they feed off of each other's needs? What does this do to their relationship?

Part 3) What does the protagonist realize about this relationship? What does he plan to do? Does he do it? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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