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

2. How do Jakob and Athos improve Jakob's English?
(a) By only speaking English at home.
(b) By listening to the radio.
(c) By making up characters and stories in English.
(d) By listening to television shows.

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

4. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?
(a) No one.
(b) Athos.
(c) Mitsialis.
(d) Sikelianos.

5. How is the site perfectly preserved?
(a) It is petrified.
(b) The occupants intentionally took steps to preserve it.
(c) It is only partially preserved.
(d) It has been encased in peat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?

2. What do Athos and Jakob gather?

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

4. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?

5. To whom does Jakob write letters?

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