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

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

3. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?
(a) Greek revolutionaries.
(b) Communists.
(c) Nazis.
(d) Americans.

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

5. What often makes Athos feel depressed?
(a) Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.
(b) Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
(c) Feeling Jakob pull away from him.
(d) Thinking about Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jakob Beer?

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

3. What does Jakob feel inside him?

4. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?

5. Where does Jakob run?

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