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

2. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes him to not go forward.
(b) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.
(c) Causes the dead pain.
(d) Causes him to not forgive.

3. What restaurants do Athos and Jakob frequent?
(a) Jewish.
(b) American.
(c) Constantine's.
(d) Italian.

4. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?
(a) The international archeological consortium.
(b) The local government of the region.
(c) The country's government.
(d) The Nazis.

5. What is "Bearing False Witness"?
(a) A book Jakob is writing.
(b) A book Kostas just published.
(c) A tribute to comrades lost at Biskupin.
(d) A new law that discriminates against minorities in Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?

2. How old is this site?

3. What does Jakob witness as he is hiding?

4. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?

5. To what is Athos prone?

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