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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Jakob survive?
(a) By the kindness of several stangers.
(b) Finds food at night and hides in the day.
(c) Because he was taught to do so.
(d) By relying upon more experienced adulst.

2. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?
(a) Blowing on leaves of grass.
(b) Blowing across bottle openings.
(c) Sliding their fingers on wires.
(d) Blowing homemade pipes.

3. What stories does Ben tell Petra?
(a) About his parents' experience in Treblinka.
(b) About Jakob and Michaela.
(c) About how he escapes his home.
(d) About him and Naomi.

4. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?
(a) Luftkin.
(b) It has no official name.
(c) Beskupin.
(d) Garzupile.

5. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.
(b) Why Jakob burns some of them.
(c) Where Jakob might have buried them.
(d) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "No Mortal Foe"?

2. What does Ben do after the storm passes?

3. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?

4. What does Ben think about rain?

5. Why can't Ben's father retire when he is of age?

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