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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 do for relaxation?
(a) Cooks.
(b) Walks.
(c) Watches television.
(d) Gardens.

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

3. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?
(a) With Jakob in the cave.
(b) In a boarding school.
(c) She is carried away by the Nazis.
(d) With Jakob in the bog.

4. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?
(a) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming out of the caves.
(b) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming down from the hills.
(c) Daphne's goodbye squeeze.
(d) A guess from a young woman at the docks.

5. What effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?
(a) It causes him to feel both fear and love.
(b) It reminds him that he is not the same as he was.
(c) It brings up images of his mother.
(d) It causes him to feel confused.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alex act?

2. What does Athos say a good deed does?

3. What is Athos' professional specialty?

4. Who visits Ben before he is five?

5. Over what have Ben and Naomi been fighting when they meet Jakob and Michaela?

(see the answer key)

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