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Anne Michaels

Fugitive Pieces | Quiz

Anne Michaels
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1)

What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time? (from Book I, The Way Station)

Sends Jakob out more and more often to become self-sufficient.
Contacts his family.
Gets Jakob secure financially.
Writes his book.
2)

What does Ben think about as he watches people eat? (from Book II, The Way Station)

A last meal.
Literary characters who help others.
His parents' obsession with food.
A bounty before death.
3)

What happens in 1968, which is the opening to Book I? (from Book I, Phosphorus)

Jakob and Bella enter a soundless, colorful dream.
Jakob stops dreaming.
Jakob meets a girl who reminds him of Bella.
Jakob meets Athos' only living relative.
4)

What often makes Athos feel depressed? (from Book I, The Way Station)

Feeling Jakob pull away from him.
Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.
Thinking about Helen.
Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
5)

What about Jakob does Alex have difficulty accepting? (from Book I, Phosphorus)

His obsession with Bella.
His halting English.
His shyness.
His Jewish background.
6)

What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness? (from Book I, Terra Nullius)

He offers forgiveness freely.
He cannot give it as it was the man on the train who they ridiculed.
He offers forgiveness with stipulations.
They never ask forgiveness of the rabbi.
7)

What does Naomi think about foreign dusks? (from Book II, The Way Station)

They are the same as where she lives.
They are milder.
They are more intense.
They are different.
8)

What does Ben remember Naomi saying before their marriage? (from Book II, The Way Station)

That he must not look back.
That if he has to look back, close his eyes.
That they must climb out of deep places together.
That must ascent the heights together.
9)

What does Jakob note about how Jews live? (from Book I, Terra Nullius)

They live in the twilight.
They live in an eternal past.
They live in the labyrinthine.
They live in an eternal present.
10)

About what does Jakob feel wrong? (from Book I, Phosphorus)

Leaving Athos' corpse in Toronto.
Writing about his sister when he does not know if she is alive.
Being married to Alex and living in a foreign land.
Writing about his sister when she was alive.
11)

What is the name of Jakob's work that shows Athos' influence? (from Book II, The Drowned City)

Down Below the Water.
Away is the Night.
High Cliffs.
Groundwork.
12)

Where does Jakob image Bella being? (from Book I, Terra Nullius)

A camp barracks.
A German officer's home.
A home for orphans.
A vault.
13)

Around which of Alex's friends does Jakob feel insecure? (from Book I, Phosphorus)

Her Zionist friends.
Her Marxist friends.
Her intellectual friends.
Her Beat friends.
14)

What does Michaela do for Ben? (from Book II, Vertical Time)

Lets him see the future.
Intensifies his belief in Jakob's vision.
Softens his perceptions of Jakob's pain.
Lets him see the past.
15)

What is "Bearing False Witness"? (from Book I, The Way Station)

A book Jakob is writing.
A new law that discriminates against minorities in Canada.
A book Kostas just published.
A tribute to comrades lost at Biskupin.
16)

About what did Ben have nightmares? (from Book II, The Drowned City)

Doors axed down.
The hiss of gas.
The grandmother becoming an SS trooper.
The demon sucking his blood dry.
17)

How does Jakob's home influence Jakob? (from Book II, Vertical Time)

It gives him the confidence to write Groundwork.
It gives him a belief in the future.
It gives him a feeling of safety to work.
It gives him a feeling of belonging.
18)

What causes Jakob to want to show Michaela the Aegean? (from Book I, The Gradual Instant)

Her yearning to see the vast expanse of a sea.
Seeing gulls fly overhead on their way across the land.
Seeing how she loves the land of her youth.
Comparing the sea's color with her eyes.
19)

What does making love with Petra do for Ben? (from Book II, Phosphorus)

Makes him think he is not human.
Helps him shake free of many lives.
Makes his burdened with anxiety.
Make him believe in her power to command the gods.
20)

Where are those born after the first child conceived? (from Book II, The Way Station)

In the kitchen.
In the fields.
On the beach.
On the mountain.
21)

What does Idhra do for Jakob? (from Book I, Terra Nullius)

Liberates his heart.
Liberates his mind.
Plunges him into a deeper depression.
Opens his memory.
22)

For what does Jakob yearn? (from Book I, The Gradual Instant)

A child.
A way to love Michaela with no barriers.
A sense of purpose now that his writings are complete.
Forgetfulness.
23)

How does Jakob feel in Greece? (from Book I, Terra Nullius)

A pariah.
A prodigal son.
At home and forever a stranger.
Completely at home.
24)

What helps Ben understand his nightmares? (from Book II, The Drowned City)

Visiting Treblinka.
Studying the Holocaust.
Reading Jakob Beer.
His grandmother's letters.
25)

What does Jakob wonder about Holocaust survivors? (from Book I, The Way Station)

How they feel surrounded by so much food.
If they hate.
If they feel guilty.
If their dead haunt them the way Jakob's haunt him.
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