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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Athos do during the night?
(a) Snores all night.
(b) Writes long letters.
(c) Prepares lectures.
(d) Paces the floor.

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

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

5. How is the site perfectly preserved?
(a) It is petrified.
(b) It has been encased in peat.
(c) The occupants intentionally took steps to preserve it.
(d) It is only partially preserved.

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

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

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

9. Who is Maurice Salman?
(a) Athos' contact in Europe.
(b) A friend Jakob makes at the University.
(c) One of Jakob's professors.
(d) A man who survives the holocaust and lives in Greece.

10. Around which of Alex's friends does Jakob feel insecure?
(a) Her Marxist friends.
(b) Her intellectual friends.
(c) Her Zionist friends.
(d) Her Beat friends.

11. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook?
(a) A Jewish seder meal.
(b) Greek dishes.
(c) Canadian traditional food.
(d) Blood pudding.

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

13. 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 forgive.
(d) Causes him to not go forward.

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

15. What is "Bearing False Witness"?
(a) A book Kostas just published.
(b) A book Jakob is writing.
(c) A new law that discriminates against minorities in Canada.
(d) A tribute to comrades lost at Biskupin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?

2. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?

3. What had Jakob hoped would happen upon marrying Alex?

4. What about Jakob does Alex have difficulty accepting?

5. What does Jakob do in his writing about his childhood that protects him?

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