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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) How they feel surrounded by so much food.
(c) If they feel guilty.
(d) If their dead haunt them the way Jakob's haunt him.

2. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.
(b) Roots one to their past.
(c) Give a sense of destiny.
(d) Hold human time.

3. What does Athos do when he sees Jakob?
(a) Tells Jakob where to find Bella.
(b) Tries to shoot Jakob.
(c) Hids Jakob under his coat.
(d) Starts crying.

4. Who is Helen?
(a) A woman Jakob stays with for several months.
(b) Athos' deceased sister.
(c) Jakob's one surviving aunt.
(d) Athos' deceased wife.

5. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook?
(a) A Jewish seder meal.
(b) Canadian traditional food.
(c) Greek dishes.
(d) Blood pudding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jakob Beer?

2. What does Athos do during the night?

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

4. What does Jakob do in his writing about his childhood that protects him?

5. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?

(see the answer key)

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