3. What do Athos and Jakob gather?
(a) Pieces of art about the Jewish people.
(b) Fellow strays.
(c) Pieces of art about the Holocaust.
(d) News.

4. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?
(a) Blowing on leaves of grass.
(b) Blowing homemade pipes.
(c) Sliding their fingers on wires.
(d) Blowing across bottle openings.

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

6. What is Athos' professional specialty?
(a) Geology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Archeology.
(d) Anthropology.

7. How does Alex act?
(a) Rebellious.
(b) Jaded.
(c) Naive.
(d) Sophisticated.

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

9. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?
(a) Ground that will remember the dead person buried there.
(b) Fertile ground.
(c) Rocky ground.
(d) Sandy ground.

10. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?
(a) A Greek Orthodox priest.
(b) The Polish consul.
(c) The mayor of Athens.
(d) An old colleague of Athos.

11. Where does Jakob run?
(a) To his aunt and uncle's home.
(b) To his grandparent's home.
(c) Into the forest.
(d) To the bog.

12. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?
(a) Write down what he remembers of his family.
(b) Keep up on his Greek.
(c) Forgive.
(d) Keep up on his Hebrew.

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

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

15. What does Jakob do in his writing about his childhood that protects him?
(a) He writes in the third person.
(b) He writes in English.
(c) He writes several stories at once.
(d) He writes in the second person.