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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, Vertical Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 13.
(d) 15.

2. Who is Mones?
(a) Another boy in the forest.
(b) Jakob's best friend.
(c) Jakob's dog.
(d) A friend of Jakob's grandfather.

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

4. Who is Jakob Beer?
(a) A young boy.
(b) An elderly man who is about to die.
(c) An archeology professor at Oxford.
(d) A priest.

5. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.
(b) Causes him to not go forward.
(c) Causes the dead pain.
(d) Causes him to not forgive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?

2. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?

3. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?

4. What is Athos' professional specialty?

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

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