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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 volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Genesis.
(c) The Stranger.
(d) The Iliad.

2. How does Jakob feel when he returns to Greece?
(a) As if he were home.
(b) Happy.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Disoriented.

3. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?
(a) To search for information about Bella and Aunt Ida's fate.
(b) To register for the University.
(c) To contact the Polish embassy.
(d) To show him some of the ancient Greek architecture.

4. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?
(a) Searching for him.
(b) Crying.
(c) Trying to get out.
(d) Practicing her keyboard fingering.

5. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?
(a) Communists.
(b) Americans.
(c) Nazis.
(d) Greek revolutionaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Ben arrive on Idhra?

2. How does Jakob's home influence Jakob?

3. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?

4. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?

5. Who is too weak to come to Idhra?

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