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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, The Drowned City.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?
(a) Sikelianos.
(b) Athos.
(c) Mitsialis.
(d) No one.

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

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

4. Who visits Ben before he is five?
(a) A demon.
(b) His maternal grandmother.
(c) An angel.
(d) Jakob Beer.

5. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?
(a) Blowing homemade pipes.
(b) Sliding their fingers on wires.
(c) Blowing on leaves of grass.
(d) Blowing across bottle openings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?

2. What is possible with recorded history?

3. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?

4. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?

5. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?

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