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

2. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) Where Jakob might have buried them.
(b) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.
(c) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.
(d) Why Jakob burns some of them.

3. To whom does Jakob write letters?
(a) The German government after the end of WWII.
(b) The dead.
(c) No one.
(d) His cousins in the United States.

4. Into what is despair transformed in the gas chambers?
(a) Anger.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Faith.
(d) Joy.

5. What does Jakob say every moment is?
(a) An opportunity.
(b) A chance.
(c) Pain relived.
(d) Two moments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob sense one day?

2. What does Ben think about as he watches people eat?

3. What helps Ben understand his nightmares?

4. What can lightning to to clothing?

5. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?

(see the answer key)

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