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

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

3. What does Jakob miss when living with Athos?
(a) His dog.
(b) His father's laugh.
(c) The most important events in his life.
(d) His mother's tender good-night kiss.

4. How does Jakob survive?
(a) Finds food at night and hides in the day.
(b) Because he was taught to do so.
(c) By relying upon more experienced adulst.
(d) By the kindness of several stangers.

5. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?
(a) He does not learn this.
(b) From the other boys of the town.
(c) From Sikelianos.
(d) From Kostas and Daphne.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?

2. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

3. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?

4. What does Athos do during the night?

5. Who is Helen?

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