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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 do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?
(a) Hide in the catacombs under the city.
(b) Hide in the hills.
(c) Pay fishermen to take them to England.
(d) Pay Christians to hide them.

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

3. Where do Athos and Jakob take up residence in Toronto?
(a) The home of another professor.
(b) Men's homeless shelter.
(c) Heathside Gardens Apartments.
(d) Athos' third cousin's home.

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

5. What does Jakob do in his writing about his childhood that protects him?
(a) He writes in the second person.
(b) He writes in the third person.
(c) He writes in English.
(d) He writes several stories at once.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Jakob run?

3. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?

4. What does Jakob witness as he is hiding?

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

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