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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?
(a) Dead family and friends.
(b) Songs.
(c) Visions of his place in the universe.
(d) Visions of poetic symbolism.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What about marriage does Alex enjoy?
(a) The respectability.
(b) The sex.
(c) The security.
(d) Nothing.

8. What spoils the sex between Jakob and Alex?
(a) Alex's indifference.
(b) The close quarters in which they live.
(c) Jakob's nightmares.
(d) Their regular arguments.

9. 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 no longer have a past.
(d) He would know why he was alive.

10. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?
(a) Bartok.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Beethoven.
(d) Mozart.

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

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

13. With what does Athos help Jakob as far as the subtleties?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Customs of the Canadians.
(c) English.
(d) Bureaucracies.

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

15. What is Alex's father's occupation?
(a) Music conductor.
(b) Physician.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Architect.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what is Athos prone?

2. What does Athos do during the night?

3. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?

4. What does Athos say stones do?

5. What does Athos say a good deed does?

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