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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. Where does Athos take Jakob?
(a) Crete.
(b) Zakynthos Island.
(c) Italy.
(d) The United States.

2. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?
(a) Being made to sit in the corner to dampen down her sensuality.
(b) He cannot imagine her as a child.
(c) Being frozen in a pose of beauty.
(d) Being imprinted by lightning.

3. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?
(a) They never ask forgiveness of the rabbi.
(b) He offers forgiveness with stipulations.
(c) He offers forgiveness freely.
(d) He cannot give it as it was the man on the train who they ridiculed.

4. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.
(b) Causes the dead pain.
(c) Causes him to not go forward.
(d) Causes him to not forgive.

5. What does Jakob see ascending?
(a) A flock of vultures.
(b) A blimp.
(c) A flock of crows.
(d) Spirits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?

2. To what does Maurice suggest that Ben's thesis correlate?

3. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?

4. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?

5. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?

(see the answer key)

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