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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?
(a) He offers forgiveness with stipulations.
(b) They never ask forgiveness of the rabbi.
(c) He offers forgiveness freely.
(d) He cannot give it as it was the man on the train who they ridiculed.

2. What does Ioannis tell of losing?
(a) His livilihood.
(b) His jewels.
(c) His family.
(d) His fishing boat.

3. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?
(a) Refusing to participate in evil.
(b) The tiniest acts.
(c) The greatest acts.
(d) The knowledge of what is happening and changing.

4. What stories does Ben tell Petra?
(a) About how he escapes his home.
(b) About Jakob and Michaela.
(c) About his parents' experience in Treblinka.
(d) About him and Naomi.

5. What does Idhra do for Jakob?
(a) Liberates his mind.
(b) Plunges him into a deeper depression.
(c) Opens his memory.
(d) Liberates his heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jakob's home influence Jakob?

2. Who is too weak to come to Idhra?

3. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?

4. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?

5. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?

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