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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. How old is this site?
(a) 10 centuries.
(b) 4,000 years.
(c) 25 centuries.
(d) 2 centuries.

2. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?
(a) Change his way of thinking about what happens to his family.
(b) Calm him.
(c) Helps him finish grieving.
(d) Make sense.

3. Who is Mones?
(a) Jakob's dog.
(b) A friend of Jakob's grandfather.
(c) Another boy in the forest.
(d) Jakob's best friend.

4. Where does Jakob sit when Athos goes to town?
(a) In the cellar.
(b) On the widow's walk.
(c) Beside an old sea chest.
(d) By the window.

5. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?
(a) Hearing the door being kicked in.
(b) His mother's ghost wandering.
(c) His father's ghost ordering his to wreck vengeance.
(d) Athos making him leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?

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

3. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

4. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?

5. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?

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