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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Phosphorus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ben arrive on Idhra?
(a) When the tide surges are higher than normal.
(b) In the middle of a serious typhoon.
(c) When a stifling air mass is becalmed over the area.
(d) At a time of refreshing winds.

2. How does Jakob make a living?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Greek-English translations.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Vineyards.

3. When does Jakob finish writing his life's stories?
(a) Spring, 1990.
(b) Summer, 1992.
(c) Winter, 1994.
(d) Fall, 1993.

4. What does Jakob think about the Catalan Atlas?
(a) It is honest about designating unknown regions.
(b) It is breathtakingly beautiful.
(c) It is very inaccurate.
(d) It is amazingly accurate.

5. How does Athos know how to cook food that he forages?
(a) His mother taught him.
(b) From ancient books.
(c) He watched his grandmother as a boy.
(d) Through trial and error.

Short Answer Questions

1. What spoils the sex between Jakob and Alex?

2. What does Athos say a good deed does?

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

4. What do Ben and Petra discover when they pull down the covers on Jakob's bed?

5. Of what does the house remind Ben?

(see the answer key)

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