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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 Jakob dream about as he sleeps?
(a) Bella.
(b) His parents being led off in handcuffs.
(c) His parents being shot.
(d) The way his mother used to hold him.

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

3. On what stories does Alex's father raise her?
(a) About Russia.
(b) About Alexander the Great.
(c) About Poland.
(d) About the British military.

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

5. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?
(a) The Nazis loot the fruit groves.
(b) They cannot afford to buy fruit.
(c) There is a drought and the fruit trees die.
(d) There is a storm that knocks their three fruit trees down.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Athos' professional specialty?

3. What is "Bearing False Witness"?

4. Of what is Athos the last?

5. What do Athos and Jakob gather?

(see the answer key)

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