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

2. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?
(a) 1000.
(b) 120.
(c) 500.
(d) 230.

3. To whom does Jakob write letters?
(a) No one.
(b) His cousins in the United States.
(c) The German government after the end of WWII.
(d) The dead.

4. Where does Jakob sit when Athos goes to town?
(a) On the widow's walk.
(b) Beside an old sea chest.
(c) By the window.
(d) In the cellar.

5. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?
(a) With Jakob in the bog.
(b) She is carried away by the Nazis.
(c) In a boarding school.
(d) With Jakob in the cave.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jakob see ascending?

3. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

4. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?

5. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?

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