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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 Helen?
(a) Athos' deceased sister.
(b) A woman Jakob stays with for several months.
(c) Jakob's one surviving aunt.
(d) Athos' deceased wife.

2. From where has Jakob Beer just emerged at the opening of the novel?
(a) A cave.
(b) The ocean.
(c) A forest.
(d) A bog.

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

4. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes the dead pain.
(b) Causes him to not go forward.
(c) Causes him to not forgive.
(d) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.

5. What is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?
(a) Nothing erases an immoral act.
(b) Forgivness is not automatic.
(c) Be kind to all since you do not know if someone is an angel.
(d) Forgiveness is possible but penance is required.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?

2. Upon what does Jakob sometimes lecture?

3. What does Athos say a good deed does?

4. How is the site perfectly preserved?

5. What does Jakob experience when he first wakes in Michaela's bed?

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