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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 does Jakob wonder about Holocaust survivors?
(a) If they feel guilty.
(b) If their dead haunt them the way Jakob's haunt him.
(c) How they feel surrounded by so much food.
(d) If they hate.

2. What happens in 1968, which is the opening to Book I?
(a) Jakob meets Athos' only living relative.
(b) Jakob stops dreaming.
(c) Jakob and Bella enter a soundless, colorful dream.
(d) Jakob meets a girl who reminds him of Bella.

3. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?
(a) Writes his book.
(b) Contacts his family.
(c) Gets Jakob secure financially.
(d) Sends Jakob out more and more often to become self-sufficient.

4. What is "Bearing False Witness"?
(a) A new law that discriminates against minorities in Canada.
(b) A book Jakob is writing.
(c) A tribute to comrades lost at Biskupin.
(d) A book Kostas just published.

5. When does Jakob feel safe above ground for the first time?
(a) Camping out in a birch forest during an electrical storm.
(b) Laying a wreath where Athos' ashes are buried.
(c) Lying in Michaela's arms.
(d) Emerging from some caves he is exploring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos say a good deed does?

2. What stories does Jakob remember Bella telling?

3. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?

4. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?

5. What does Athos say the sight of many birds is?

(see the answer key)

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