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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, Vertical Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Athos say a good deed does?
(a) Starts a domino effect.
(b) Morally advances the doer.
(c) Morally advances the dead.
(d) Erases ten bad deeds.

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

3. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?
(a) Rocky ground.
(b) Sandy ground.
(c) Ground that will remember the dead person buried there.
(d) Fertile ground.

4. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) The virus of exclusion.
(b) Death as a solution.
(c) War as a way of change.
(d) The virus of violence.

5. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes the dead pain.
(b) Causes him to not forgive.
(c) Causes him to not go forward.
(d) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?

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

3. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?

4. How old is this site?

5. What does Jakob sense one day?

(see the answer key)

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