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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Helen?
(a) Jakob's one surviving aunt.
(b) Athos' deceased wife.
(c) A woman Jakob stays with for several months.
(d) Athos' deceased sister.

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

3. How is Alex actually?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Cold.
(c) Awkwardly innocent.
(d) Passionately naive.

4. Who is Palamas?
(a) An historian.
(b) A poet.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A priest.

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

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

7. What does Athos say the sight of many birds is?
(a) Bad luck.
(b) A sign that the heavens are whispering advice.
(c) The sign of prayers comforting the dead.
(d) Good luck.

8. What does Jakob think about the Catalan Atlas?
(a) It is very inaccurate.
(b) It is amazingly accurate.
(c) It is breathtakingly beautiful.
(d) It is honest about designating unknown regions.

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

10. What had Jakob hoped would happen upon marrying Alex?
(a) He would know why he was alive.
(b) It would bring light into his life.
(c) He would no longer have a past.
(d) He would become someone all together different.

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

12. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?
(a) Pay Christians to hide them.
(b) Pay fishermen to take them to England.
(c) Hide in the hills.
(d) Hide in the catacombs under the city.

13. What does Jakob see ascending?
(a) A flock of crows.
(b) A blimp.
(c) A flock of vultures.
(d) Spirits.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

2. Where do Jakob and Alex meet?

3. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?

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

5. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?

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