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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 Palamas?
(a) A poet.
(b) A priest.
(c) An historian.
(d) A soldier.

2. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?
(a) From Kostas and Daphne.
(b) From the other boys of the town.
(c) He does not learn this.
(d) From Sikelianos.

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

4. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) The virus of exclusion.
(b) War as a way of change.
(c) The virus of violence.
(d) Death as a solution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jakob's home influence Jakob?

2. What does Michaela do for Ben?

3. What does Athos say the sight of many birds is?

4. When does Ben arrive on Idhra?

5. Who is too weak to come to Idhra?

(see the answer key)

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