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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 do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?
(a) Pay fishermen to take them to England.
(b) Pay Christians to hide them.
(c) Hide in the hills.
(d) Hide in the catacombs under the city.

2. Around which of Alex's friends does Jakob feel insecure?
(a) Her Zionist friends.
(b) Her Beat friends.
(c) Her Marxist friends.
(d) Her intellectual friends.

3. What about Jakob does Alex have difficulty accepting?
(a) His obsession with Bella.
(b) His Jewish background.
(c) His halting English.
(d) His shyness.

4. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) The virus of violence.
(b) The virus of exclusion.
(c) Death as a solution.
(d) War as a way of change.

5. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook?
(a) Blood pudding.
(b) A Jewish seder meal.
(c) Greek dishes.
(d) Canadian traditional food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos say luck requires?

2. When does Ben arrive on Idhra?

3. To what is Athos prone?

4. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?

5. Where does Jakob run?

(see the answer key)

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