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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. How is Alex actually?
(a) Passionately naive.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Cold.
(d) Awkwardly innocent.

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

3. What does Ioannis tell of losing?
(a) His family.
(b) His jewels.
(c) His livilihood.
(d) His fishing boat.

4. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.
(b) Where Jakob might have buried them.
(c) Why Jakob burns some of them.
(d) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is possible with recorded history?

2. What helps Ben understand his nightmares?

3. About what continent does Athos talk to Jakob?

4. What is "Bearing False Witness"?

5. How does Ben react to the sight of the harbor at Idhra?

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