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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?
(a) From Kostas and Daphne.
(b) From Sikelianos.
(c) He does not learn this.
(d) From the other boys of the town.

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

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

4. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?
(a) To search for information about Bella and Aunt Ida's fate.
(b) To show him some of the ancient Greek architecture.
(c) To register for the University.
(d) To contact the Polish embassy.

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

6. How is Alex actually?
(a) Cold.
(b) Awkwardly innocent.
(c) Passionately naive.
(d) Indifferent.

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

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

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

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

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

12. About what does Jakob feel wrong?
(a) Writing about his sister when he does not know if she is alive.
(b) Being married to Alex and living in a foreign land.
(c) Writing about his sister when she was alive.
(d) Leaving Athos' corpse in Toronto.

13. 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.

14. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?
(a) Gets Jakob secure financially.
(b) Writes his book.
(c) Contacts his family.
(d) Sends Jakob out more and more often to become self-sufficient.

15. What is Athos' professional specialty?
(a) Geology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Archeology.
(d) Sociology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

2. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?

3. What about Jakob does Alex have difficulty accepting?

4. Where do Athos and Jakob take up residence in Toronto?

5. What do Athos and Jakob gather?

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