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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Vertical Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Naomi do to escape the heat and humidity?
(a) Lies in the spring in the back of the house.
(b) Turns the thermostat down in the house.
(c) Turns the A/C on high in her car.
(d) Takes a cold shower.

2. When does Ben arrive on Idhra?
(a) At a time of refreshing winds.
(b) When a stifling air mass is becalmed over the area.
(c) When the tide surges are higher than normal.
(d) In the middle of a serious typhoon.

3. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?
(a) Crying.
(b) Trying to get out.
(c) Practicing her keyboard fingering.
(d) Searching for him.

4. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) War as a way of change.
(b) The virus of violence.
(c) The virus of exclusion.
(d) Death as a solution.

5. To what does Maurice suggest that Ben's thesis correlate?
(a) Colors.
(b) Weather.
(c) Tides.
(d) Work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Athos?

2. What does Idhra do for Jakob?

3. Who visits Ben before he is five?

4. What does Athos say a good deed does?

5. When does Jakob finish writing his life's stories?

(see the answer key)

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