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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) Blood pudding.
(b) Canadian traditional food.
(c) A Jewish seder meal.
(d) Greek dishes.

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

3. What does Jakob wonder about Holocaust survivors?
(a) How they feel surrounded by so much food.
(b) If they hate.
(c) If their dead haunt them the way Jakob's haunt him.
(d) If they feel guilty.

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 English.
(d) He writes in the second person.

5. Why does Jakob not return to a grocery he shops at?
(a) He hates the food they sell.
(b) He hears someone speak German.
(c) He misunderstands the grocer's thick accent.
(d) He hears a little boy being cursed as a Jew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "Bearing False Witness"?

2. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?

3. To what is Athos prone?

4. What does Athos do during the night?

5. Where do Athos and Jakob take up residence in Toronto?

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