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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. Who is Helen?
(a) A woman Jakob stays with for several months.
(b) Athos' deceased sister.
(c) Jakob's one surviving aunt.
(d) Athos' deceased wife.

2. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?
(a) A intricate pattern on the den's wallpaper.
(b) A dry-docked ship.
(c) A labyrinthine in the garden.
(d) A hand-drawn map.

3. What often makes Athos feel depressed?
(a) Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.
(b) Feeling Jakob pull away from him.
(c) Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
(d) Thinking about Helen.

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

5. With what does Athos help Jakob as far as the subtleties?
(a) Bureaucracies.
(b) English.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Customs of the Canadians.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Maurice worry?

2. What returns to Michaela when she speaks?

3. Why does Jakob say Germans tried to dehumanize Jews?

4. How long is it before the attraction between Jakob and Alex ends?

5. How does Jakob feel in Greece?

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