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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Alex actually?
(a) Passionately naive.
(b) Cold.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Awkwardly innocent.

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

3. Of what is Athos the last?
(a) Those who can read a specialized Greek.
(b) A seafaring family.
(c) His siblings.
(d) Those who can interpret a rare hieroglyphic alphabet.

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

5. How is Naomi described as usually being?
(a) Warm.
(b) Exuberant.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Shy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Athos and Jakob gather?

2. What is significant of Salonika?

3. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?

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

5. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?

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