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

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

3. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?
(a) He offers forgiveness freely.
(b) They never ask forgiveness of the rabbi.
(c) He cannot give it as it was the man on the train who they ridiculed.
(d) He offers forgiveness with stipulations.

4. Of what does the house remind Ben?
(a) Uninterrupted lives when Vesuvius erupted.
(b) Uninterrupted lives when an avalanche buried a Canadian town in the Rockies.
(c) Uninterrupted lives when the last tidal wave struck Japan when he was there.
(d) Uninterrupted lives when Krakatoa erupted.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ben react to the sight of the harbor at Idhra?

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

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

4. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?

5. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?

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