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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 is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?
(a) Forgivness is not automatic.
(b) Nothing erases an immoral act.
(c) Forgiveness is possible but penance is required.
(d) Be kind to all since you do not know if someone is an angel.

2. In what color can a Polish painter Jakob meets not paint?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Yellow.

3. To what does Maurice suggest that Ben's thesis correlate?
(a) Colors.
(b) Weather.
(c) Work.
(d) Tides.

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

5. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?
(a) Ostentatiously.
(b) With much elaborate preparations.
(c) Incognito.
(d) Simply but openly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob sense one day?

2. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?

3. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

4. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?

5. Where does Jakob run?

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