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

2. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?
(a) Pay fishermen to take them to England.
(b) Pay Christians to hide them.
(c) Hide in the hills.
(d) Hide in the catacombs under the city.

3. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?
(a) Bartok.
(b) Mozart.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Wagner.

4. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?
(a) Keep up on his Hebrew.
(b) Forgive.
(c) Write down what he remembers of his family.
(d) Keep up on his Greek.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Athos prone?

2. Of what is Athos the last?

3. How old is this site?

4. What does Ioannis tell of losing?

5. How does Jakob survive?

(see the answer key)

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