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

2. How does Ben react to the sight of the harbor at Idhra?
(a) He thinks it's cluttered but interesting.
(b) He is disappointed.
(c) He gasps.
(d) He finds it exciting but unintelligible.

3. What does Athos say the sight of many birds is?
(a) Good luck.
(b) A sign that the heavens are whispering advice.
(c) Bad luck.
(d) The sign of prayers comforting the dead.

4. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?
(a) The knowledge of what is happening and changing.
(b) The tiniest acts.
(c) Refusing to participate in evil.
(d) The greatest acts.

5. What does Ben's father do for a living?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Music conductor.
(c) Physician.
(d) Train conductor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is "Bearing False Witness"?

3. What does Jakob see ascending?

4. What does Ben do after the storm passes?

5. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?

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