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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. Where do Athos and Jakob take up residence in Toronto?
(a) Athos' third cousin's home.
(b) Heathside Gardens Apartments.
(c) Men's homeless shelter.
(d) The home of another professor.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos do during the night?

2. Where do Jakob and Alex meet?

3. What does Athos say the sight of many birds is?

4. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?

5. With what does Athos help Jakob as far as the subtleties?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jakob think concerning the dead?

2. Describe the day-to-day life of Jakob and Athos.

3. Describe Alex.

4. How does Jakob contrast history and memory?

5. Why does Athos choose Toronto as the place to relocate?

6. What did Jakob Beer witness as he hid in the bog?

7. What is the Beskupin site?

8. How does Jakob end up in Greece?

9. How does Bella continue to impact Jakob's life?

10. Why do Athos and Jakob identify with explorers of Antarctica?

(see the answer keys)

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