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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?
(a) Make sense.
(b) Calm him.
(c) Change his way of thinking about what happens to his family.
(d) Helps him finish grieving.

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

3. From where has Jakob Beer just emerged at the opening of the novel?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A forest.
(c) A cave.
(d) A bog.

4. What does Athos say a good deed does?
(a) Morally advances the dead.
(b) Erases ten bad deeds.
(c) Morally advances the doer.
(d) Starts a domino effect.

5. How old is this site?
(a) 2 centuries.
(b) 4,000 years.
(c) 25 centuries.
(d) 10 centuries.

6. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?
(a) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming out of the caves.
(b) A guess from a young woman at the docks.
(c) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming down from the hills.
(d) Daphne's goodbye squeeze.

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

8. What does Ioannis tell of losing?
(a) His jewels.
(b) His family.
(c) His fishing boat.
(d) His livilihood.

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 misunderstands the grocer's thick accent.
(c) He hates the food they sell.
(d) He hears someone speak German.

10. Where does Athos take Jakob?
(a) Crete.
(b) Zakynthos Island.
(c) The United States.
(d) Italy.

11. What does Athos say luck requires?
(a) Heeding warnings.
(b) The gods' benevolence.
(c) Being ready for it.
(d) Being good.

12. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?
(a) Systematically.
(b) Studying everything about the composer before listening to his/her work.
(c) Randomly.
(d) With just one ear covered by the headset.

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

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

15. What does Jakob sense one day?
(a) That someone is looking for him.
(b) That Bella has died.
(c) That Bella is nearby.
(d) That the evil in the area has left.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Athos and Jakob take up residence in Toronto?

2. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?

3. How long is it before the attraction between Jakob and Alex ends?

4. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?

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

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