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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 is Jakob Beer?
(a) An elderly man who is about to die.
(b) A priest.
(c) An archeology professor at Oxford.
(d) A young boy.

2. What often makes Athos feel depressed?
(a) Feeling Jakob pull away from him.
(b) Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.
(c) Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
(d) Thinking about Helen.

3. Where do Jakob and Alex meet?
(a) An ice cream social.
(b) A music library.
(c) An amusement park.
(d) A yacht race.

4. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?
(a) He offers forgiveness with stipulations.
(b) He cannot give it as it was the man on the train who they ridiculed.
(c) They never ask forgiveness of the rabbi.
(d) He offers forgiveness freely.

5. What is Jakob to do when Alex leaves him?
(a) Find a more suitable wife.
(b) Return to Greece.
(c) Not step outside the door.
(d) Return to Poland.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What restaurants do Athos and Jakob frequent?

3. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?

4. Of what is Jakob afraid concerning Michaela?

5. What does Jakob think about the Catalan Atlas?

(see the answer key)

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