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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?
(a) 230.
(b) 1000.
(c) 500.
(d) 120.

4. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?
(a) Keep up on his Hebrew.
(b) Forgive.
(c) Keep up on his Greek.
(d) Write down what he remembers of his family.

5. About what continent does Athos talk to Jakob?
(a) Asia.
(b) North American.
(c) Australia.
(d) Antarctica.

6. What does Jakob wonder about Holocaust survivors?
(a) If their dead haunt them the way Jakob's haunt him.
(b) How they feel surrounded by so much food.
(c) If they hate.
(d) If they feel guilty.

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

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

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

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

11. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?
(a) Crawls under the bed.
(b) Climbs in the sea chest.
(c) Sits in the chair shaking in terror.
(d) Makes his way up the mountain to a cave.

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

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

14. What does Athos say luck requires?
(a) The gods' benevolence.
(b) Heeding warnings.
(c) Being ready for it.
(d) Being good.

15. What effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?
(a) It causes him to feel both fear and love.
(b) It brings up images of his mother.
(c) It causes him to feel confused.
(d) It reminds him that he is not the same as he was.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?

2. What does Athos say stones do?

3. How is the site perfectly preserved?

4. Who is Palamas?

5. What do the Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?

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