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

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

3. What spoils the sex between Jakob and Alex?
(a) Alex's indifference.
(b) The close quarters in which they live.
(c) Jakob's nightmares.
(d) Their regular arguments.

4. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?
(a) Pay Christians to hide them.
(b) Hide in the hills.
(c) Hide in the catacombs under the city.
(d) Pay fishermen to take them to England.

5. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?
(a) Force roles upon each person.
(b) Cut themselves with thousands of tiny cuts to exercise demons.
(c) Burn down their island to exorcise a spirit.
(d) Exorcise every youth and some did not survive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?

2. On what stories does Alex's father raise her?

3. What does Jakob experience when he first wakes in Michaela's bed?

4. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?

5. About what does Jakob feel wrong?

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