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

2. Who is Athos?
(a) Bella's contact.
(b) A man Jakob approaches.
(c) Jakob's grandfather.
(d) Jakob's uncle.

3. Of what is Michaela afraid after visiting a museum?
(a) Her culture dying.
(b) Becoming mummified.
(c) At the size of people in centuries past.
(d) Her lands falling into other people's hands.

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

5. What does Jakob miss when living with Athos?
(a) His dog.
(b) His father's laugh.
(c) His mother's tender good-night kiss.
(d) The most important events in his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?

2. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?

3. Where does Jakob run?

4. From where has Jakob Beer just emerged at the opening of the novel?

5. What does Ben's father forbid anyone mentioning?

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