3. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?
(a) Dead family and friends.
(b) Songs.
(c) Visions of poetic symbolism.
(d) Visions of his place in the universe.

4. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?
(a) Gets Jakob secure financially.
(b) Contacts his family.
(c) Sends Jakob out more and more often to become self-sufficient.
(d) Writes his book.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What restaurants do Athos and Jakob frequent?
(a) American.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Constantine's.
(d) Italian.

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

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

13. What does Jakob miss when living with Athos?
(a) His father's laugh.
(b) The most important events in his life.
(c) His mother's tender good-night kiss.
(d) His dog.

14. Who is Athos?
(a) Jakob's grandfather.
(b) Bella's contact.
(c) Jakob's uncle.
(d) A man Jakob approaches.

15. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?
(a) Sits in the chair shaking in terror.
(b) Makes his way up the mountain to a cave.
(c) Crawls under the bed.
(d) Climbs in the sea chest.