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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 the sight of many birds is?
(a) The sign of prayers comforting the dead.
(b) A sign that the heavens are whispering advice.
(c) Good luck.
(d) Bad luck.

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

3. Who is Athos?
(a) Jakob's grandfather.
(b) Jakob's uncle.
(c) Bella's contact.
(d) A man Jakob approaches.

4. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?
(a) No one.
(b) Sikelianos.
(c) Athos.
(d) Mitsialis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Athos the last?

2. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

3. What does Jakob witness as he is hiding?

4. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?

5. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?

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