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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, The Gradual Instant.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Helen?
(a) A woman Jakob stays with for several months.
(b) Athos' deceased wife.
(c) Athos' deceased sister.
(d) Jakob's one surviving aunt.

2. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?
(a) Visions of poetic symbolism.
(b) Visions of his place in the universe.
(c) Songs.
(d) Dead family and friends.

3. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?
(a) Climbs in the sea chest.
(b) Makes his way up the mountain to a cave.
(c) Sits in the chair shaking in terror.
(d) Crawls under the bed.

4. About what does Jakob feel wrong?
(a) Being married to Alex and living in a foreign land.
(b) Leaving Athos' corpse in Toronto.
(c) Writing about his sister when he does not know if she is alive.
(d) Writing about his sister when she was alive.

5. Around which of Alex's friends does Jakob feel insecure?
(a) Her Zionist friends.
(b) Her Beat friends.
(c) Her intellectual friends.
(d) Her Marxist friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

2. Where do Athos and Jakob take up residence in Toronto?

3. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?

4. What is significant of Salonika?

5. What does Athos say stones do?

(see the answer key)

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