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

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

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

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

5. What does Athos say a good deed does?
(a) Morally advances the doer.
(b) Starts a domino effect.
(c) Morally advances the dead.
(d) Erases ten bad deeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?

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

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

4. What is Athos' professional specialty?

5. How is Alex actually?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jakob contrast history and memory?

2. Describe Alex.

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

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

5. What does Jakob do after he witnesses the invasion of his home?

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

7. How does Jakob meet Alex?

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

9. How does Bella continue to impact Jakob's life?

10. What is Biskupin and what happens to it?

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