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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Jakob to do when Alex leaves him?
(a) Not step outside the door.
(b) Find a more suitable wife.
(c) Return to Poland.
(d) Return to Greece.

3. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?
(a) 13.
(b) 15.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?

2. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?

3. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?

4. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?

5. Where does Jakob run?

Short Essay Questions

1. What incident does Ioannis relate, and of what does it remind Jakob?

2. How does Jakob end up in Greece?

3. Where is Jakob Beer at the opening of the novel, and what is he doing?

4. What often causes Athos to become depressed or angry?

5. How does Jakob contrast history and memory?

6. Describe Alex.

7. Why do Athos and Jakob identify with explorers of Antarctica?

8. What does Athos do and say before he and Jakob leave for Canada?

9. How does Jakob meet Alex?

10. What is Jakob's reaction to reading Athos' letters?

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