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

2. How does Athos know how to cook food that he forages?
(a) He watched his grandmother as a boy.
(b) Through trial and error.
(c) His mother taught him.
(d) From ancient books.

3. Who is Helen?
(a) Athos' deceased wife.
(b) A woman Jakob stays with for several months.
(c) Athos' deceased sister.
(d) Jakob's one surviving aunt.

4. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes him to not go forward.
(b) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.
(c) Causes the dead pain.
(d) Causes him to not forgive.

5. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?
(a) His father's ghost ordering his to wreck vengeance.
(b) Hearing the door being kicked in.
(c) His mother's ghost wandering.
(d) Athos making him leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob feel inside him?

2. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?

3. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?

4. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?

5. About what does Jakob feel wrong?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Biskupin and what happens to it?

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

3. What does Jakob think concerning the dead?

4. Describe Alex.

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

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

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

8. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook, and why does Jakob stop going to the grocery store?

9. How does Kostas describe the various occupations?

10. What is the Beskupin site?

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