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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the group camp as Part II begins?
(a) In an oasis in the Sahara.
(b) A meadow in the Alps.
(c) A narrow mountain gorge on the Italian border.
(d) A dark forest in Greece.

2. How does the narrator describe all the artists, poets, and musicians among the group in Part I?
(a) Gracious hosts at the feast in Zurich.
(b) Distracting the group from their goal.
(c) The chief source of comfort for the group.
(d) Animated yet half-real, half-there.

3. What is the narrator's life-goal?
(a) To understand the "Tao".
(b) To capture a magical snake.
(c) To travel with Roland.
(d) To win the love of Princess Fatima.

4. What has Lukas been a part of?
(a) The League's leadership.
(b) A journey east.
(c) The World War.
(d) The League's court.

5. What does Lukas compare H.H.'s experiences on the journey to?
(a) A bad dream.
(b) The Illiad.
(c) His own war experiences.
(d) Mary and Josephs' journey to Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does H.H. describe certain articles in Part II?

2. Who or what does H.H. say he will not give in to as Part III opens?

3. In Part II, how does H.H. describe what everything has become to him?

4. What does Lukas say H.H. keeps coming back to?

5. What does the deserter wish to do some time later?

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