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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. What does Jakob feel inside him?
(a) His sister's terror.
(b) His father telling him to run.
(c) His mother saying goodbye.
(d) Nothing.

2. What is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?
(a) Forgivness is not automatic.
(b) Forgiveness is possible but penance is required.
(c) Be kind to all since you do not know if someone is an angel.
(d) Nothing erases an immoral act.

3. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?
(a) Makes his way up the mountain to a cave.
(b) Crawls under the bed.
(c) Climbs in the sea chest.
(d) Sits in the chair shaking in terror.

4. Of what is Michaela afraid after visiting a museum?
(a) Her lands falling into other people's hands.
(b) At the size of people in centuries past.
(c) Her culture dying.
(d) Becoming mummified.

5. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?
(a) To show him some of the ancient Greek architecture.
(b) To register for the University.
(c) To search for information about Bella and Aunt Ida's fate.
(d) To contact the Polish embassy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?

2. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?

3. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?

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

5. Of what is Athos the last?

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