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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 Kostas Mitsialis?
(a) The Polish consul.
(b) The mayor of Athens.
(c) A Greek Orthodox priest.
(d) An old colleague of Athos.

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

3. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?
(a) Make sense.
(b) Calm him.
(c) Change his way of thinking about what happens to his family.
(d) Helps him finish grieving.

4. Who is Maurice Salman?
(a) A friend Jakob makes at the University.
(b) Athos' contact in Europe.
(c) One of Jakob's professors.
(d) A man who survives the holocaust and lives in Greece.

5. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?
(a) Gets Jakob secure financially.
(b) Contacts his family.
(c) Writes his book.
(d) Sends Jakob out more and more often to become self-sufficient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?

2. Of what is Athos the last?

3. Who is Jakob Beer?

4. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?

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

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