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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) Erases ten bad deeds.
(d) Morally advances the dead.

2. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The local government of the region.
(c) The international archeological consortium.
(d) The country's government.

3. Who is Jakob Beer?
(a) An archeology professor at Oxford.
(b) A young boy.
(c) A priest.
(d) An elderly man who is about to die.

4. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Hold human time.
(b) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.
(c) Give a sense of destiny.
(d) Roots one to their past.

5. How is the site perfectly preserved?
(a) It has been encased in peat.
(b) The occupants intentionally took steps to preserve it.
(c) It is petrified.
(d) It is only partially preserved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?

2. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?

3. What does Ioannis tell of losing?

4. What does Jakob dream about as he sleeps?

5. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?

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