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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. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?
(a) The local government of the region.
(b) The country's government.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) The international archeological consortium.

2. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?
(a) They live in an eternal past.
(b) They live in the labyrinthine.
(c) They live in an eternal present.
(d) They live in the twilight.

3. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?
(a) His father's ghost ordering his to wreck vengeance.
(b) His mother's ghost wandering.
(c) Hearing the door being kicked in.
(d) Athos making him leave.

4. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?
(a) Visions of poetic symbolism.
(b) Dead family and friends.
(c) Songs.
(d) Visions of his place in the universe.

5. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?
(a) Doors.
(b) Food.
(c) Guns.
(d) Information.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?

2. Over what have Ben and Naomi been fighting when they meet Jakob and Michaela?

3. When does Ben first meet Jakob and Michaela?

4. About what does Jakob feel wrong?

5. Who are Yoshi and Tomas?

(see the answer key)

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