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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. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Bartok.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Wagner.

2. Who is Maurice Salman?
(a) Athos' contact in Europe.
(b) A man who survives the holocaust and lives in Greece.
(c) A friend Jakob makes at the University.
(d) One of Jakob's professors.

3. What does Jakob see ascending?
(a) A flock of crows.
(b) A flock of vultures.
(c) A blimp.
(d) Spirits.

4. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?
(a) Handing out candy.
(b) Singing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Growling.

5. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Give a sense of destiny.
(b) Hold human time.
(c) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.
(d) Roots one to their past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mones?

2. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?

3. Who is Athos?

4. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?

5. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?

(see the answer key)

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