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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 often makes Athos feel depressed?
(a) Writing about those lost at Biskupin.
(b) Feeling Jakob pull away from him.
(c) Seeing Jakob growing away from Jakob's heritage.
(d) Thinking about Helen.

2. What does Jakob witness as he is hiding?
(a) His baby brother being carried away.
(b) The wrecking of the archeological site.
(c) His mother kissing his father before his father is shot.
(d) His parents being led away in handcuffs.

3. What does Jakob feel inside him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His father telling him to run.
(c) His mother saying goodbye.
(d) His sister's terror.

4. 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 and Bella enter a soundless, colorful dream.
(d) Jakob meets Athos' only living relative.

5. What does Athos do when he sees Jakob?
(a) Tries to shoot Jakob.
(b) Tells Jakob where to find Bella.
(c) Starts crying.
(d) Hids Jakob under his coat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the site where Jakob has just emerged?

2. What does Athos insist that Jakob do?

3. Where do Jakob and Alex meet?

4. With what does Athos help Jakob as far as the subtleties?

5. What about marriage does Alex enjoy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kostas say about Palamas and Sikelianos?

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

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

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

5. How does Kostas describe the various occupations?

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

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

8. What is the Beskupin site?

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

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

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