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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, The Way Station.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?
(a) No one.
(b) Athos.
(c) Sikelianos.
(d) Mitsialis.

2. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?
(a) Change his way of thinking about what happens to his family.
(b) Make sense.
(c) Helps him finish grieving.
(d) Calm him.

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

4. Of what is Athos the last?
(a) His siblings.
(b) Those who can read a specialized Greek.
(c) A seafaring family.
(d) Those who can interpret a rare hieroglyphic alphabet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does making love with Petra do for Ben?

2. What does Jakob think Bella wants to do for him?

3. Why can't Ben's father retire when he is of age?

4. How long is it before the attraction between Jakob and Alex ends?

5. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?

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