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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?
(a) There is a drought and the fruit trees die.
(b) They cannot afford to buy fruit.
(c) The Nazis loot the fruit groves.
(d) There is a storm that knocks their three fruit trees down.

2. Who is Athos?
(a) Bella's contact.
(b) A man Jakob approaches.
(c) Jakob's grandfather.
(d) Jakob's uncle.

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

4. Why does Jakob not return to a grocery he shops at?
(a) He hears someone speak German.
(b) He hears a little boy being cursed as a Jew.
(c) He misunderstands the grocer's thick accent.
(d) He hates the food they sell.

5. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) War as a way of change.
(b) Death as a solution.
(c) The virus of exclusion.
(d) The virus of violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?

2. What does Athos say stones do?

3. How does Jakob survive?

4. What does Jakob witness as he is hiding?

5. What restaurants do Athos and Jakob frequent?

(see the answer key)

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