2. Why does Jakob not return to a grocery he shops at?
(a) He hates the food they sell.
(b) He hears a little boy being cursed as a Jew.
(c) He misunderstands the grocer's thick accent.
(d) He hears someone speak German.

3. 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.

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

5. What is the state of Greece during this time?
(a) It has become a strong, financial center of the area.
(b) It is rapidly recovering from WWII.
(c) It better off than many of the post-WWII countries, but not real good.
(d) It is in ruins.

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

7. What does Jakob miss when living with Athos?
(a) His mother's tender good-night kiss.
(b) His father's laugh.
(c) His dog.
(d) The most important events in his life.

8. What often makes Athos feel depressed?
(a) Feeling Jakob pull away from him.
(b) Thinking about Helen.
(c) Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
(d) Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.

9. Where does Jakob sit when Athos goes to town?
(a) On the widow's walk.
(b) By the window.
(c) Beside an old sea chest.
(d) In the cellar.

10. What does Jakob say every moment is?
(a) Pain relived.
(b) An opportunity.
(c) Two moments.
(d) A chance.

11. What stories does Jakob remember Bella telling?
(a) About a devil.
(b) About an adventurer.
(c) About Brahms.
(d) About a mouse in the house.

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

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

14. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) Death as a solution.
(b) War as a way of change.
(c) The virus of violence.
(d) The virus of exclusion.

15. Who is Athos?
(a) Bella's contact.
(b) Jakob's uncle.
(c) A man Jakob approaches.
(d) Jakob's grandfather.