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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. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?
(a) Simply but openly.
(b) With much elaborate preparations.
(c) Ostentatiously.
(d) Incognito.

2. To what is Athos prone?
(a) Depression.
(b) Euphoria.
(c) Fits of rage.
(d) Doubt.

3. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?
(a) No one.
(b) Sikelianos.
(c) Mitsialis.
(d) Athos.

4. What reminds Ben of his parents' shoes and mended clothing?
(a) A jumble of sandals in Jakob's study.
(b) A picture of a medicant preacher.
(c) A description in one of Jakob's journals.
(d) Two elderly Jews walking past in the street.

5. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.
(b) Why Jakob burns some of them.
(c) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.
(d) Where Jakob might have buried them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jakob feel in Greece?

2. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?

3. What is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?

4. Who is Palamas?

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

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