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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 Palamas?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A priest.
(c) A poet.
(d) An historian.

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

3. Where does Jakob run?
(a) To the bog.
(b) To his aunt and uncle's home.
(c) Into the forest.
(d) To his grandparent's home.

4. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?
(a) The need to know what happened to his parents.
(b) The desire to confront his family's killers.
(c) Images of Jakob's family and friends.
(d) The desire for revenge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Around which of Alex's friends does Jakob feel insecure?

2. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?

3. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?

4. What does Jakob miss when living with Athos?

5. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jakob meet Alex?

4. Describe Alex.

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

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

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

8. How does Jakob contrast history and memory?

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

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

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