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

2. What is Alex's father's occupation?
(a) Architect.
(b) Physician.
(c) Music conductor.
(d) Lawyer.

3. What does Jakob think about the Catalan Atlas?
(a) It is very inaccurate.
(b) It is amazingly accurate.
(c) It is breathtakingly beautiful.
(d) It is honest about designating unknown regions.

4. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Give a sense of destiny.
(b) Hold human time.
(c) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.
(d) Roots one to their past.

5. What does Jakob miss when living with Athos?
(a) His mother's tender good-night kiss.
(b) The most important events in his life.
(c) His dog.
(d) His father's laugh.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what does Jakob live in constant fear?

3. How does Jakob survive?

4. Where does Jakob sit when Athos goes to town?

5. What spoils the sex between Jakob and Alex?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Beskupin site?

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

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

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

6. What is Toronto like and where do Athos and Jakob go to live?

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

8. What often causes Athos to become depressed or angry?

9. Where is Jakob Beer at the opening of the novel, and what is he doing?

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

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