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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. About what did Ben have nightmares?
(a) The demon sucking his blood dry.
(b) Doors axed down.
(c) The hiss of gas.
(d) The grandmother becoming an SS trooper.

2. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?
(a) Exorcise every youth and some did not survive.
(b) Force roles upon each person.
(c) Burn down their island to exorcise a spirit.
(d) Cut themselves with thousands of tiny cuts to exercise demons.

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

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

5. What does Ben say the quest to recover someone's psyche is?
(a) A futile act.
(b) A voyoristic exercise.
(c) A gift to those lost.
(d) A function of love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?

2. What stories does Jakob remember Bella telling?

3. What opinion does Jakob offer on the issue about which Naomi and Ben are fighting?

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

5. What does Jakob think Bella wants to do for him?

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