2. To whom does Jakob write letters?
(a) His cousins in the United States.
(b) No one.
(c) The dead.
(d) The German government after the end of WWII.

3. What does Jakob think about the Catalan Atlas?
(a) It is amazingly accurate.
(b) It is breathtakingly beautiful.
(c) It is very inaccurate.
(d) It is honest about designating unknown regions.

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

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

6. Who is Jakob Beer?
(a) An archeology professor at Oxford.
(b) A priest.
(c) A young boy.
(d) An elderly man who is about to die.

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

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

9. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?
(a) Beskupin.
(b) Luftkin.
(c) It has no official name.
(d) Garzupile.

10. How does Alex act?
(a) Sophisticated.
(b) Jaded.
(c) Rebellious.
(d) Naive.

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

12. What does Ioannis tell of losing?
(a) His livilihood.
(b) His fishing boat.
(c) His jewels.
(d) His family.

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

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

15. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?
(a) Hide in the hills.
(b) Pay Christians to hide them.
(c) Pay fishermen to take them to England.
(d) Hide in the catacombs under the city.