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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. How do Jakob and Athos improve Jakob's English?
(a) By making up characters and stories in English.
(b) By listening to television shows.
(c) By listening to the radio.
(d) By only speaking English at home.

2. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) The country's government.
(c) The local government of the region.
(d) The international archeological consortium.

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

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

5. Who is Mones?
(a) Jakob's dog.
(b) Another boy in the forest.
(c) Jakob's best friend.
(d) A friend of Jakob's grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob dream about as he sleeps?

2. What about marriage does Alex enjoy?

3. What happens in 1968, which is the opening to Book I?

4. What does Ioannis tell of losing?

5. What effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Athos cause Jakob to understand the power of poetry?

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

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

4. Why do Athos and Jakob go to Athens and in what condition is Greece?

5. What does Jakob think concerning the dead?

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

7. Describe Alex.

8. How does Kostas describe the various occupations?

9. How does Jakob end up in Greece?

10. How does the relationship between Alex and Jakob evolve?

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