2. How long is it before the attraction between Jakob and Alex ends?
(a) Five years.
(b) Seven months.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

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

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

5. Who is Mones?
(a) Jakob's best friend.
(b) Another boy in the forest.
(c) A friend of Jakob's grandfather.
(d) Jakob's dog.

6. What happens in 1968, which is the opening to Book I?
(a) Jakob meets Athos' only living relative.
(b) Jakob stops dreaming.
(c) Jakob and Bella enter a soundless, colorful dream.
(d) Jakob meets a girl who reminds him of Bella.

7. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?
(a) Nazis.
(b) Communists.
(c) Americans.
(d) Greek revolutionaries.

8. How old is this site?
(a) 4,000 years.
(b) 10 centuries.
(c) 2 centuries.
(d) 25 centuries.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Athos say a good deed does?
(a) Starts a domino effect.
(b) Morally advances the dead.
(c) Erases ten bad deeds.
(d) Morally advances the doer.

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