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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. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?
(a) With Jakob in the bog.
(b) In a boarding school.
(c) With Jakob in the cave.
(d) She is carried away by the Nazis.

2. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?
(a) The Polish consul.
(b) An old colleague of Athos.
(c) The mayor of Athens.
(d) A Greek Orthodox priest.

3. Of what is Athos the last?
(a) Those who can interpret a rare hieroglyphic alphabet.
(b) A seafaring family.
(c) Those who can read a specialized Greek.
(d) His siblings.

4. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?
(a) The desire for revenge.
(b) The need to know what happened to his parents.
(c) Images of Jakob's family and friends.
(d) The desire to confront his family's killers.

5. To whom does Jakob write letters?
(a) His cousins in the United States.
(b) No one.
(c) The dead.
(d) The German government after the end of WWII.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob feel inside him?

2. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

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

4. Who is Palamas?

5. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?

(see the answer key)

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