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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, The Way Station.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jakob sense one day?
(a) That the evil in the area has left.
(b) That Bella has died.
(c) That Bella is nearby.
(d) That someone is looking for him.

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

3. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?
(a) Communists.
(b) Greek revolutionaries.
(c) Nazis.
(d) Americans.

4. To whom does Jakob write letters?
(a) No one.
(b) His cousins in the United States.
(c) The German government after the end of WWII.
(d) The dead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?

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

3. What does Athos say the sight of many birds is?

4. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?

5. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

(see the answer key)

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