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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 are Australian and British soldiers described doing?
(a) Singing.
(b) Handing out candy.
(c) Crying.
(d) Growling.

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

3. What stories does Jakob remember Bella telling?
(a) About a devil.
(b) About a mouse in the house.
(c) About Brahms.
(d) About an adventurer.

4. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) Death as a solution.
(b) War as a way of change.
(c) The virus of violence.
(d) The virus of exclusion.

5. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?
(a) The international archeological consortium.
(b) The country's government.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) The local government of the region.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Athos do for relaxation?

2. What had Jakob hoped would happen upon marrying Alex?

3. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?

4. Who is Jakob Beer?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Biskupin and what happens to it?

3. Describe Alex.

4. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook, and why does Jakob stop going to the grocery store?

5. Why do Athos and Jakob go to Athens and in what condition is Greece?

6. What does Athos do and say before he and Jakob leave for Canada?

7. What is the Beskupin site?

8. What does Jakob do after he witnesses the invasion of his home?

9. How does Athos cause Jakob to understand the power of poetry?

10. What does Kostas say about Palamas and Sikelianos?

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