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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Athos do when he sees Jakob?
(a) Starts crying.
(b) Hids Jakob under his coat.
(c) Tells Jakob where to find Bella.
(d) Tries to shoot Jakob.

2. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?
(a) Bartok.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Wagner.
(d) Mozart.

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

4. What happens in 1968, which is the opening to Book I?
(a) Jakob meets a girl who reminds him of Bella.
(b) Jakob meets Athos' only living relative.
(c) Jakob and Bella enter a soundless, colorful dream.
(d) Jakob stops dreaming.

5. Around which of Alex's friends does Jakob feel insecure?
(a) Her Zionist friends.
(b) Her intellectual friends.
(c) Her Marxist friends.
(d) Her Beat friends.

6. What about marriage does Alex enjoy?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The security.
(c) The respectability.
(d) The sex.

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

8. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?
(a) To show him some of the ancient Greek architecture.
(b) To search for information about Bella and Aunt Ida's fate.
(c) To contact the Polish embassy.
(d) To register for the University.

9. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?
(a) Americans.
(b) Greek revolutionaries.
(c) Nazis.
(d) Communists.

10. What is Alex's father's occupation?
(a) Physician.
(b) Music conductor.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Architect.

11. What does Jakob dream about as he sleeps?
(a) The way his mother used to hold him.
(b) His parents being led off in handcuffs.
(c) His parents being shot.
(d) Bella.

12. What often makes Athos feel depressed?
(a) Feeling Jakob pull away from him.
(b) Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.
(c) Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
(d) Thinking about Helen.

13. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes the dead pain.
(b) Causes him to not forgive.
(c) Causes him to not go forward.
(d) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?

2. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?

3. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?

4. What does Ioannis tell of losing?

5. How old is this site?

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