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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. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?
(a) Searching for him.
(b) Crying.
(c) Trying to get out.
(d) Practicing her keyboard fingering.

2. How does Jakob feel when he returns to Greece?
(a) As if he were home.
(b) Wrong.
(c) Happy.
(d) Disoriented.

3. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?
(a) They live in the labyrinthine.
(b) They live in the twilight.
(c) They live in an eternal past.
(d) They live in an eternal present.

4. What does Athos say the sight of many birds is?
(a) Bad luck.
(b) A sign that the heavens are whispering advice.
(c) The sign of prayers comforting the dead.
(d) Good luck.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?

2. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?

3. What does Athos say luck requires?

4. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?

5. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?

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