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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes the dead pain.
(b) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.
(c) Causes him to not go forward.
(d) Causes him to not forgive.

2. To what is Athos prone?
(a) Fits of rage.
(b) Euphoria.
(c) Depression.
(d) Doubt.

3. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?
(a) 230.
(b) 500.
(c) 120.
(d) 1000.

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

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

6. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?
(a) From the other boys of the town.
(b) He does not learn this.
(c) From Sikelianos.
(d) From Kostas and Daphne.

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

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

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

10. How does Jakob survive?
(a) By relying upon more experienced adulst.
(b) By the kindness of several stangers.
(c) Finds food at night and hides in the day.
(d) Because he was taught to do so.

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

12. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?
(a) Sikelianos.
(b) Athos.
(c) No one.
(d) Mitsialis.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what stories does Alex's father raise her?

2. What stories does Jakob remember Bella telling?

3. About what does Jakob feel wrong?

4. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook?

5. What does Jakob miss when living with Athos?

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