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

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

3. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) The Stranger.
(c) Psalms.
(d) Genesis.

4. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?
(a) Refusing to participate in evil.
(b) The tiniest acts.
(c) The greatest acts.
(d) The knowledge of what is happening and changing.

5. What does Athos say luck requires?
(a) Being good.
(b) Being ready for it.
(c) Heeding warnings.
(d) The gods' benevolence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Helen?

2. About what does Maurice worry?

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

4. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?

5. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?

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