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

3. Why does Jakob not return to a grocery he shops at?
(a) He hates the food they sell.
(b) He hears someone speak German.
(c) He hears a little boy being cursed as a Jew.
(d) He misunderstands the grocer's thick accent.

4. About what does Jakob feel wrong?
(a) Being married to Alex and living in a foreign land.
(b) Writing about his sister when he does not know if she is alive.
(c) Writing about his sister when she was alive.
(d) Leaving Athos' corpse in Toronto.

5. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?
(a) He does not learn this.
(b) From Kostas and Daphne.
(c) From Sikelianos.
(d) From the other boys of the town.

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

7. Who is Mones?
(a) Another boy in the forest.
(b) A friend of Jakob's grandfather.
(c) Jakob's best friend.
(d) Jakob's dog.

8. How is the site perfectly preserved?
(a) It has been encased in peat.
(b) It is petrified.
(c) The occupants intentionally took steps to preserve it.
(d) It is only partially preserved.

9. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?
(a) Images of Jakob's family and friends.
(b) The desire to confront his family's killers.
(c) The desire for revenge.
(d) The need to know what happened to his parents.

10. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?
(a) Keep up on his Hebrew.
(b) Forgive.
(c) Write down what he remembers of his family.
(d) Keep up on his Greek.

11. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?
(a) Hearing the door being kicked in.
(b) His mother's ghost wandering.
(c) Athos making him leave.
(d) His father's ghost ordering his to wreck vengeance.

12. What spoils the sex between Jakob and Alex?
(a) Their regular arguments.
(b) The close quarters in which they live.
(c) Alex's indifference.
(d) Jakob's nightmares.

13. What does Jakob wonder about Holocaust survivors?
(a) How they feel surrounded by so much food.
(b) If they feel guilty.
(c) If their dead haunt them the way Jakob's haunt him.
(d) If they hate.

14. What does Athos say a good deed does?
(a) Erases ten bad deeds.
(b) Morally advances the doer.
(c) Morally advances the dead.
(d) Starts a domino effect.

15. About what continent does Athos talk to Jakob?
(a) North American.
(b) Australia.
(c) Asia.
(d) Antarctica.