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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Roots one to their past.
(b) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.
(c) Hold human time.
(d) Give a sense of destiny.

4. Who is Jakob Beer?
(a) An elderly man who is about to die.
(b) A young boy.
(c) An archeology professor at Oxford.
(d) A priest.

5. Where do Jakob and Alex meet?
(a) An ice cream social.
(b) A yacht race.
(c) An amusement park.
(d) A music library.

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

7. 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) Daphne's goodbye squeeze.
(d) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming down from the hills.

8. What does Jakob dream about as he sleeps?
(a) The way his mother used to hold him.
(b) His parents being shot.
(c) His parents being led off in handcuffs.
(d) Bella.

9. Of what is Athos the last?
(a) Those who can interpret a rare hieroglyphic alphabet.
(b) A seafaring family.
(c) Those who can read a specialized Greek.
(d) His siblings.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Jakob feel inside him?
(a) His sister's terror.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His mother saying goodbye.
(d) His father telling him to run.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Athos take Jakob?

2. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?

3. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?

4. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?

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

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