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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 happens in 1968, which is the opening to Book I?
(a) Jakob stops dreaming.
(b) Jakob meets a girl who reminds him of Bella.
(c) Jakob meets Athos' only living relative.
(d) Jakob and Bella enter a soundless, colorful dream.

2. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?
(a) Garzupile.
(b) It has no official name.
(c) Luftkin.
(d) Beskupin.

3. What does Jakob do in his writing about his childhood that protects him?
(a) He writes in the third person.
(b) He writes in the second person.
(c) He writes in English.
(d) He writes several stories at once.

4. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?
(a) The mayor of Athens.
(b) An old colleague of Athos.
(c) A Greek Orthodox priest.
(d) The Polish consul.

5. What does Jakob wonder about Holocaust survivors?
(a) If they hate.
(b) If they feel guilty.
(c) If their dead haunt them the way Jakob's haunt him.
(d) How they feel surrounded by so much food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Australian and British soldiers described doing?

2. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?

3. What stories does Jakob remember Bella telling?

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

5. What does Jakob say every moment is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Athos relate natural phenomenon to railroads and the Holocaust?

2. What does Jakob think concerning the dead?

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

4. What is Toronto like and where do Athos and Jakob go to live?

5. What did Jakob Beer witness as he hid in the bog?

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

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

8. How does Jakob meet Alex?

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

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

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