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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 reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?
(a) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming out of the caves.
(b) A guess from a young woman at the docks.
(c) Daphne's goodbye squeeze.
(d) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming down from the hills.

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

3. What does Ben find tucked into the roof of where he is staying?
(a) A map.
(b) A book of burial locations.
(c) A key.
(d) Jakob's private study.

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

5. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?
(a) 500.
(b) 230.
(c) 120.
(d) 1000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?

2. What does Athos say luck requires?

3. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?

4. What time does the painted clock at Treblinka station always read?

5. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?

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