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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. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?
(a) 500.
(b) 120.
(c) 1000.
(d) 230.

2. In what color can a Polish painter Jakob meets not paint?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

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

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

5. What does Athos say a good deed does?
(a) Morally advances the dead.
(b) Erases ten bad deeds.
(c) Morally advances the doer.
(d) Starts a domino effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?

2. What effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?

3. Who is Palamas?

4. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?

5. With what does Athos help Jakob as far as the subtleties?

(see the answer key)

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