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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. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?
(a) With Jakob in the bog.
(b) In a boarding school.
(c) With Jakob in the cave.
(d) She is carried away by the Nazis.

2. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The international archeological consortium.
(c) The local government of the region.
(d) The country's government.

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

4. What does Jakob do in his writing about his childhood that protects him?
(a) He writes in the third person.
(b) He writes several stories at once.
(c) He writes in the second person.
(d) He writes in English.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

2. How is the site perfectly preserved?

3. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?

4. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?

5. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?

(see the answer key)

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