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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 too weak to come to Idhra?
(a) Kostas.
(b) Michaela.
(c) Naomi.
(d) Maurice.

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

3. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) Why Jakob burns some of them.
(b) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.
(c) Where Jakob might have buried them.
(d) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.

4. Where does Jakob image Bella being?
(a) A camp barracks.
(b) A vault.
(c) A home for orphans.
(d) A German officer's home.

5. What does Michaela do for Ben?
(a) Intensifies his belief in Jakob's vision.
(b) Lets him see the future.
(c) Softens his perceptions of Jakob's pain.
(d) Lets him see the past.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Athos prone?

2. What is possible with recorded history?

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

4. Who is Helen?

5. What does Athos say luck requires?

(see the answer key)

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