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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Jakob afraid concerning Michaela?
(a) Giving her too little of herself.
(b) Hurting her.
(c) Giving her too much of himself.
(d) Losing her.

2. What had Jakob hoped would happen upon marrying Alex?
(a) He would become someone all together different.
(b) He would know why he was alive.
(c) It would bring light into his life.
(d) He would no longer have a past.

3. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?
(a) Nazis.
(b) Greek revolutionaries.
(c) Communists.
(d) Americans.

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

5. Why does Jakob not return to a grocery he shops at?
(a) He hates the food they sell.
(b) He misunderstands the grocer's thick accent.
(c) He hears a little boy being cursed as a Jew.
(d) He hears someone speak German.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?

2. How does Athos know how to cook food that he forages?

3. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?

4. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?

5. What is Alex's father's occupation?

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