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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, The Stone-Carriers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jakob survive?
(a) By the kindness of several stangers.
(b) Because he was taught to do so.
(c) Finds food at night and hides in the day.
(d) By relying upon more experienced adulst.

2. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?
(a) Change his way of thinking about what happens to his family.
(b) Helps him finish grieving.
(c) Make sense.
(d) Calm him.

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

4. About what continent does Athos talk to Jakob?
(a) Asia.
(b) Antarctica.
(c) Australia.
(d) North American.

5. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?
(a) There is a storm that knocks their three fruit trees down.
(b) The Nazis loot the fruit groves.
(c) There is a drought and the fruit trees die.
(d) They cannot afford to buy fruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is this site?

2. How is the site perfectly preserved?

3. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

4. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?

5. From where has Jakob Beer just emerged at the opening of the novel?

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