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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does the painted clock at Treblinka station always read?
(a) 3 o'clock.
(b) 1 o'clock.
(c) 12 o'clock.
(d) 9 o'clock.

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

3. What is "No Mortal Foe"?
(a) Ben's second book.
(b) A collection of essays by Jakob.
(c) A treatise on angels.
(d) Jakob's third chapbook of poems.

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

5. How did people study the nature of lightening up to the eighteenth century?
(a) By its appearance.
(b) By its frequency.
(c) They had no interest in studying lightening.
(d) By its effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Jakob to want to show Michaela the Aegean?

2. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?

3. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?

4. What is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?

5. Where do Athos and Jakob take up residence in Toronto?

(see the answer key)

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