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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, The Way Station.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?
(a) Sliding their fingers on wires.
(b) Blowing across bottle openings.
(c) Blowing homemade pipes.
(d) Blowing on leaves of grass.

2. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?
(a) Images of Jakob's family and friends.
(b) The desire for revenge.
(c) The desire to confront his family's killers.
(d) The need to know what happened to his parents.

3. What often makes Athos feel depressed?
(a) Feeling Jakob pull away from him.
(b) Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
(c) Thinking about Helen.
(d) Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.

4. Of what is Athos the last?
(a) A seafaring family.
(b) Those who can interpret a rare hieroglyphic alphabet.
(c) Those who can read a specialized Greek.
(d) His siblings.

5. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Roots one to their past.
(b) Give a sense of destiny.
(c) Hold human time.
(d) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook?

2. Where does Jakob run?

3. Who is Jakob Beer?

4. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?

5. Who is Helen?

(see the answer key)

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