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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 do Jakob and Athos improve Jakob's English?
(a) By listening to the radio.
(b) By making up characters and stories in English.
(c) By only speaking English at home.
(d) By listening to television shows.

2. What does Ben see his mother doing while his father is eating?
(a) Smiling.
(b) Stroking his hair.
(c) Crying.
(d) Being still as a statue.

3. What opinion does Jakob offer on the issue about which Naomi and Ben are fighting?
(a) He supports Ben.
(b) He thinks a compromise is fairly easy.
(c) He supports Naomi.
(d) He has no opinion.

4. Of what is Jakob afraid concerning Michaela?
(a) Giving her too much of himself.
(b) Losing her.
(c) Hurting her.
(d) Giving her too little of herself.

5. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?
(a) Being imprinted by lightning.
(b) Being frozen in a pose of beauty.
(c) He cannot imagine her as a child.
(d) Being made to sit in the corner to dampen down her sensuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob feel inside him?

2. Over what have Ben and Naomi been fighting when they meet Jakob and Michaela?

3. When are Ben's parents liberated from a concentration camp?

4. What is Zakynthos like?

5. What is possible with recorded history?

(see the answer key)

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