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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Vertical Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?
(a) They live in the labyrinthine.
(b) They live in an eternal past.
(c) They live in an eternal present.
(d) They live in the twilight.

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

3. About what did Ben have nightmares?
(a) Doors axed down.
(b) The grandmother becoming an SS trooper.
(c) The hiss of gas.
(d) The demon sucking his blood dry.

4. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?
(a) Keep up on his Greek.
(b) Keep up on his Hebrew.
(c) Forgive.
(d) Write down what he remembers of his family.

5. What helps Ben understand his nightmares?
(a) Visiting Treblinka.
(b) His grandmother's letters.
(c) Reading Jakob Beer.
(d) Studying the Holocaust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Idhra do for Jakob?

2. How does Athos know how to cook food that he forages?

3. What does Jakob witness as he is hiding?

4. Of what is Athos the last?

5. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?

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