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

2. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?
(a) Burn down their island to exorcise a spirit.
(b) Exorcise every youth and some did not survive.
(c) Force roles upon each person.
(d) Cut themselves with thousands of tiny cuts to exercise demons.

3. Of what is Michaela afraid after visiting a museum?
(a) Becoming mummified.
(b) Her culture dying.
(c) Her lands falling into other people's hands.
(d) At the size of people in centuries past.

4. What was Ben's father doing the first time Ben saw him cry?
(a) Eating.
(b) Talking on the phone.
(c) Reading.
(d) Mowing the yard.

5. What is significant of Salonika?
(a) It is where Jews, Christians, and Muslims once lived in harmony.
(b) It is where Athos' ashes are strewn.
(c) It is where Jakob produces his greatest works of poetry.
(d) It is where Jakob finds information about Bella.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stories does Jakob remember Bella telling?

2. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?

3. How is Naomi described as usually being?

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

5. Who are Yoshi and Tomas?

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