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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, The Drowned City.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ben's father forbid anyone mentioning?
(a) Relatives.
(b) Hitler's name.
(c) The past.
(d) The love of God.

3. How old is this site?
(a) 25 centuries.
(b) 4,000 years.
(c) 10 centuries.
(d) 2 centuries.

4. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?
(a) The tiniest acts.
(b) The knowledge of what is happening and changing.
(c) Refusing to participate in evil.
(d) The greatest acts.

5. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?
(a) He offers forgiveness with stipulations.
(b) He offers forgiveness freely.
(c) He cannot give it as it was the man on the train who they ridiculed.
(d) They never ask forgiveness of the rabbi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob experience when he first wakes in Michaela's bed?

2. What does Ioannis tell of losing?

3. What about marriage does Alex enjoy?

4. What happens in 1968, which is the opening to Book I?

5. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

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