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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 do at the first sign of danger?
(a) Crawls under the bed.
(b) Sits in the chair shaking in terror.
(c) Climbs in the sea chest.
(d) Makes his way up the mountain to a cave.

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

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

4. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?
(a) To show him some of the ancient Greek architecture.
(b) To search for information about Bella and Aunt Ida's fate.
(c) To contact the Polish embassy.
(d) To register for the University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?

2. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

3. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?

4. What is the state of Greece during this time?

5. Who is Athos?

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