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

2. Where do Jakob and Alex meet?
(a) A yacht race.
(b) A music library.
(c) An ice cream social.
(d) An amusement park.

3. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?
(a) Athos making him leave.
(b) Hearing the door being kicked in.
(c) His mother's ghost wandering.
(d) His father's ghost ordering his to wreck vengeance.

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

5. What effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?
(a) It causes him to feel confused.
(b) It brings up images of his mother.
(c) It causes him to feel both fear and love.
(d) It reminds him that he is not the same as he was.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?

2. Upon what does Jakob sometimes lecture?

3. What is Alex's father's occupation?

4. What does Athos do during the night?

5. What is the state of Greece during this time?

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