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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. What restaurants do Athos and Jakob frequent?
(a) Constantine's.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Italian.
(d) American.

2. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?
(a) Systematically.
(b) Randomly.
(c) With just one ear covered by the headset.
(d) Studying everything about the composer before listening to his/her work.

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

4. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?
(a) Make sense.
(b) Change his way of thinking about what happens to his family.
(c) Calm him.
(d) Helps him finish grieving.

5. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?
(a) Blowing on leaves of grass.
(b) Blowing across bottle openings.
(c) Sliding their fingers on wires.
(d) Blowing homemade pipes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Jakob sometimes lecture?

2. What does Athos say a good deed does?

3. Who are Yoshi and Tomas?

4. What causes Jakob to want to show Michaela the Aegean?

5. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?

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