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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 scares Owen about religion?
(a) Masses of people with the same emotion.
(b) The non-governmental hierarchy.
(c) The wars it engenders.
(d) The iconography.

2. What location is Owen visiting when he meets the two strange men in the tomb caves?
(a) An observatory.
(b) A citadel.
(c) An arena.
(d) A monastery.

3. What do information do the two men in Owen's Chapter 2 story ask of him?
(a) Who is father was.
(b) How many languages he speaks.
(c) Where he was born.
(d) What his business in Matala is.

4. How do Tap, Kathryn and James travel to the dig in Chapter 2?
(a) They walk.
(b) They take a cab.
(c) They take a bus.
(d) They take the train.

5. At the end of Chapter 1, how does James think Kathryn's attitude toward him is changing?
(a) She is becoming more affectionate.
(b) She is becoming more pitying.
(c) She is becoming more judgmental.
(d) She is becoming more remote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual thing do the Keller's do late at night in Chapter 3?

2. How many people did Owen Brademas's dig start with?

3. What does James list out in Chapter 1 to annoy Kathryn?

4. Near the end of Chapter 3, David and James discuss unrest in what region?

5. What favorite activity has Charles Maitland given up on in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does Owen tell about a cave in Chapter 2?

2. Describe the murder in Kouros.

3. How has Charles Maitland changed of late?

4. Why are the Axtons separated?

5. What do Owen and James talk about at the end of Chapter 2?

6. What explanation of the language cult's motives does Vosdanik offer in Chapter 6?

7. How is Owen's connection to the cave people addressed in Chapter 4?

8. What does James Axton do in Europe?

9. What theories do Kathryn and Owen posit about the killings in Chapter 5?

10. Why is Volterra in Jordan in Chapter 6?

(see the answer keys)

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