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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is it before the attraction between Jakob and Alex ends?

2. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?

3. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?

4. What does Jakob sense one day?

5. Who is Palamas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jakob end up in Greece?

4. What is Biskupin and what happens to it?

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 Athos cause Jakob to understand the power of poetry?

8. How does Jakob learn English, and of what is he proud as he is mastering the language?

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

10. How does Jakob meet Alex?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jakob offers the parable of a famed rabbi who travels incognito in shabby clothing and is ridiculed by passengers. When they find out who he is, they beg forgiveness, but he refuses, even on the Day of Awe, because they have wronged the man on the train, not himself. The moral: nothing erases an immoral act. When the victim is dead, only silence remains. Recorded history can be resurrected. Destruction turns presence into absence.

1. With research, explain what a parable is and why they might be used. Use examples from your own life and "Fugitive Pieces" to support your answer.

2. Do you think it is true that nothing erases an immoral act? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.

3. Discuss, in depth, what you think the following means: When the victim is dead, only silence remains. Recorded history can be resurrected. Destruction turns presence into absence. Use examples from your own life and "Fugitive Pieces" to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

1. What is foreshadowing? How many incidences of foreshadowing are in "Fugitive Pieces"? How does foreshadowing contribute to a book's suspense?

2. Discuss an example of foreshadow in "Fugitive Pieces" including why you believe it is foreshadow. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. How do you think most people react to uncertainty in their lives? Use examples from "Fugitive Pieces" and your own live to support your opinion.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss "Fugitive Pieces" based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if it is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider "Fugitive Pieces" a successful novel? What about young teens?

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