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

2. Who is Helen?
(a) Athos' deceased wife.
(b) A woman Jakob stays with for several months.
(c) Jakob's one surviving aunt.
(d) Athos' deceased sister.

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

4. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?
(a) Daphne's goodbye squeeze.
(b) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming out of the caves.
(c) A guess from a young woman at the docks.
(d) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming down from the hills.

5. From where has Jakob Beer just emerged at the opening of the novel?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A cave.
(c) A forest.
(d) A bog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?

2. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

3. About what continent does Athos talk to Jakob?

4. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?

5. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

(see the answer key)

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