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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Vertical Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Athos say a good deed does?
(a) Erases ten bad deeds.
(b) Starts a domino effect.
(c) Morally advances the dead.
(d) Morally advances the doer.

2. To what is Athos prone?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Fits of rage.
(c) Depression.
(d) Euphoria.

3. Who is Helen?
(a) A woman Jakob stays with for several months.
(b) Athos' deceased wife.
(c) Jakob's one surviving aunt.
(d) Athos' deceased sister.

4. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) The virus of exclusion.
(b) Death as a solution.
(c) The virus of violence.
(d) War as a way of change.

5. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?
(a) From Kostas and Daphne.
(b) From the other boys of the town.
(c) From Sikelianos.
(d) He does not learn this.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long does Ben search for Jakob's journals?

2. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?

3. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?

4. Why does Jakob say Germans tried to dehumanize Jews?

5. What does Michaela do for Ben?

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