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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook?
(a) Greek dishes.
(b) Canadian traditional food.
(c) A Jewish seder meal.
(d) Blood pudding.

2. Where does Athos take Jakob?
(a) Italy.
(b) Crete.
(c) Zakynthos Island.
(d) The United States.

3. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.
(b) Hold human time.
(c) Give a sense of destiny.
(d) Roots one to their past.

4. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?
(a) From Kostas and Daphne.
(b) He does not learn this.
(c) From the other boys of the town.
(d) From Sikelianos.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mones?

2. What restaurants do Athos and Jakob frequent?

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

4. What does Jakob do in his writing about his childhood that protects him?

5. About what continent does Athos talk to Jakob?

(see the answer key)

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