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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, The Way Station.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Palamas?
(a) A poet.
(b) An historian.
(c) A priest.
(d) A soldier.

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

3. What does Athos say luck requires?
(a) Heeding warnings.
(b) Being good.
(c) The gods' benevolence.
(d) Being ready for it.

4. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?
(a) To register for the University.
(b) To contact the Polish embassy.
(c) To search for information about Bella and Aunt Ida's fate.
(d) To show him some of the ancient Greek architecture.

5. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?
(a) They cannot afford to buy fruit.
(b) There is a storm that knocks their three fruit trees down.
(c) There is a drought and the fruit trees die.
(d) The Nazis loot the fruit groves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?

2. What does Ioannis tell of losing?

3. Who is Helen?

4. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

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

(see the answer key)

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