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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. How does Jakob's home influence Jakob?
(a) It gives him a belief in the future.
(b) It gives him a feeling of belonging.
(c) It gives him the confidence to write Groundwork.
(d) It gives him a feeling of safety to work.

2. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?
(a) Ground that will remember the dead person buried there.
(b) Fertile ground.
(c) Rocky ground.
(d) Sandy ground.

3. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?
(a) The mayor of Athens.
(b) An old colleague of Athos.
(c) A Greek Orthodox priest.
(d) The Polish consul.

4. Of what does the house remind Ben?
(a) Uninterrupted lives when Krakatoa erupted.
(b) Uninterrupted lives when the last tidal wave struck Japan when he was there.
(c) Uninterrupted lives when an avalanche buried a Canadian town in the Rockies.
(d) Uninterrupted lives when Vesuvius erupted.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?

2. For how long does Ben search for Jakob's journals?

3. Into what is despair transformed in the gas chambers?

4. What does Athos say luck requires?

5. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?

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