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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 dream about as he sleeps?
(a) His parents being led off in handcuffs.
(b) Bella.
(c) His parents being shot.
(d) The way his mother used to hold him.

2. Who is Maurice Salman?
(a) Athos' contact in Europe.
(b) A friend Jakob makes at the University.
(c) A man who survives the holocaust and lives in Greece.
(d) One of Jakob's professors.

3. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?
(a) Studying everything about the composer before listening to his/her work.
(b) Systematically.
(c) Randomly.
(d) With just one ear covered by the headset.

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

5. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?
(a) Blowing across bottle openings.
(b) Sliding their fingers on wires.
(c) Blowing homemade pipes.
(d) Blowing on leaves of grass.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the site perfectly preserved?

2. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?

3. Who is Mones?

4. What does Jakob see ascending?

5. What do Athos and Jakob gather?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the day-to-day life of Jakob and Athos.

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

4. Who is Athos and what does he pass on to Jakob?

5. What does Jakob sense from his hiding place as his family is killed?

6. What thoughts does Jakob have about the Catalan Atlas and history?

7. What is Biskupin and what happens to it?

8. How does Jakob learn English, and of what is he proud as he is mastering the language?

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

10. How does Jakob end up in Greece?

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