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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 effect does hearing the old tongue have on Jakob?
(a) It causes him to feel confused.
(b) It brings up images of his mother.
(c) It causes him to feel both fear and love.
(d) It reminds him that he is not the same as he was.

2. What do Athos' stories begin to do for Jakob?
(a) Helps him finish grieving.
(b) Make sense.
(c) Calm him.
(d) Change his way of thinking about what happens to his family.

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

4. Who deliberately smashes and reburies this site?
(a) The country's government.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) The international archeological consortium.
(d) The local government of the region.

5. What is "Bearing False Witness"?
(a) A tribute to comrades lost at Biskupin.
(b) A book Kostas just published.
(c) A new law that discriminates against minorities in Canada.
(d) A book Jakob is writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?

2. What does Athos say luck requires?

3. Who is Athos?

4. What does Athos say stones do?

5. How many villages are decimated as the Nazis leave?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Alex.

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

7. What does Jakob think concerning the dead?

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

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

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

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