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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is it before the attraction between Jakob and Alex ends?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Seven months.

2. Where does Jakob sit when Athos goes to town?
(a) By the window.
(b) Beside an old sea chest.
(c) In the cellar.
(d) On the widow's walk.

3. What spoils the sex between Jakob and Alex?
(a) Jakob's nightmares.
(b) Alex's indifference.
(c) The close quarters in which they live.
(d) Their regular arguments.

4. Who is Athos?
(a) Jakob's uncle.
(b) A man Jakob approaches.
(c) Jakob's grandfather.
(d) Bella's contact.

5. How is Alex actually?
(a) Cold.
(b) Passionately naive.
(c) Awkwardly innocent.
(d) Indifferent.

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

7. What about Jakob does Alex have difficulty accepting?
(a) His shyness.
(b) His obsession with Bella.
(c) His Jewish background.
(d) His halting English.

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

9. What does Jakob see ascending?
(a) Spirits.
(b) A flock of crows.
(c) A blimp.
(d) A flock of vultures.

10. From where has Jakob Beer just emerged at the opening of the novel?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A cave.
(c) A forest.
(d) A bog.

11. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?
(a) Dead family and friends.
(b) Visions of his place in the universe.
(c) Visions of poetic symbolism.
(d) Songs.

12. What does Athos say the sight of many birds is?
(a) A sign that the heavens are whispering advice.
(b) The sign of prayers comforting the dead.
(c) Good luck.
(d) Bad luck.

13. How do Jakob and Athos improve Jakob's English?
(a) By listening to television shows.
(b) By listening to the radio.
(c) By making up characters and stories in English.
(d) By only speaking English at home.

14. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) The virus of violence.
(b) The virus of exclusion.
(c) Death as a solution.
(d) War as a way of change.

15. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?
(a) Causes him to not forgive.
(b) Causes the dead pain.
(c) Causes him to not go forward.
(d) Causes him to lose sight of beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Athos take Jakob to Athens?

2. Who is Mones?

3. What does Jakob say every moment is?

4. What does Athos do during the night?

5. How old is Jakob when Athos takes him to Athens?

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