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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. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?
(a) Crying.
(b) Trying to get out.
(c) Practicing her keyboard fingering.
(d) Searching for him.

2. About what does Jakob feel wrong?
(a) Writing about his sister when he does not know if she is alive.
(b) Writing about his sister when she was alive.
(c) Being married to Alex and living in a foreign land.
(d) Leaving Athos' corpse in Toronto.

3. What often makes Athos feel depressed?
(a) Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
(b) Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.
(c) Thinking about Helen.
(d) Feeling Jakob pull away from him.

4. Where does Jakob sit when Athos goes to town?
(a) By the window.
(b) In the cellar.
(c) On the widow's walk.
(d) Beside an old sea chest.

5. What had Jakob hoped would happen upon marrying Alex?
(a) He would know why he was alive.
(b) He would become someone all together different.
(c) He would no longer have a past.
(d) It would bring light into his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?

2. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?

3. What does Ioannis tell of losing?

4. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?

5. Who is Jakob Beer?

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