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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 is the state of Greece during this time?
(a) It better off than many of the post-WWII countries, but not real good.
(b) It has become a strong, financial center of the area.
(c) It is rapidly recovering from WWII.
(d) It is in ruins.

2. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?
(a) The desire for revenge.
(b) The need to know what happened to his parents.
(c) Images of Jakob's family and friends.
(d) The desire to confront his family's killers.

3. Who is Maurice Salman?
(a) A man who survives the holocaust and lives in Greece.
(b) Athos' contact in Europe.
(c) One of Jakob's professors.
(d) A friend Jakob makes at the University.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What about marriage does Alex enjoy?

2. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

3. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?

4. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?

5. What is "Bearing False Witness"?

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