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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 Jews do when the Germans take over the occupation of the country from the Italians?
(a) Pay Christians to hide them.
(b) Hide in the hills.
(c) Pay fishermen to take them to England.
(d) Hide in the catacombs under the city.

2. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?
(a) 500.
(b) 230.
(c) 120.
(d) 1000.

3. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?
(a) Gets Jakob secure financially.
(b) Sends Jakob out more and more often to become self-sufficient.
(c) Writes his book.
(d) Contacts his family.

4. What does Athos say luck requires?
(a) Being good.
(b) The gods' benevolence.
(c) Heeding warnings.
(d) Being ready for it.

5. In what type of ground does Athos say one should be buried?
(a) Fertile ground.
(b) Rocky ground.
(c) Ground that will remember the dead person buried there.
(d) Sandy ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?

2. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?

3. Who is Maurice Salman?

4. What does Ioannis tell of losing?

5. Who is Mones?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Athos do and say before he and Jakob leave for Canada?

7. How does Jakob contrast history and memory?

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

9. How does Jakob end up in Greece?

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

(see the answer keys)

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