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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. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?
(a) Bartok.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Wagner.
(d) Mozart.

2. What is Ben's favorite poet?
(a) Athos.
(b) Militias.
(c) He is not a lover of poetry.
(d) Jakob Beer.

3. How does Jakob feel when he returns to Greece?
(a) Happy.
(b) As if he were home.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Disoriented.

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

5. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.
(b) Give a sense of destiny.
(c) Hold human time.
(d) Roots one to their past.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jakob's home influence Jakob?

2. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?

3. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?

4. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?

5. Who visits Ben before he is five?

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