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

2. What is Michaela's occupation?
(a) Secretary.
(b) Vineyard adminstrator.
(c) Housewife.
(d) Museum administrator.

3. What does Ben say the quest to recover someone's psyche is?
(a) A voyoristic exercise.
(b) A futile act.
(c) A gift to those lost.
(d) A function of love.

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

5. What is Jakob to do when Alex leaves him?
(a) Find a more suitable wife.
(b) Return to Poland.
(c) Not step outside the door.
(d) Return to Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?

2. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?

3. What does Jakob do in his writing about his childhood that protects him?

4. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?

5. What does Jakob sense one day?

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