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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. To what is Athos prone?
(a) Euphoria.
(b) Fits of rage.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Depression.
2. What is Jakob to do when Alex leaves him?
(a) Return to Poland.
(b) Return to Greece.
(c) Not step outside the door.
(d) Find a more suitable wife.
3. How old is this site?
(a) 25 centuries.
(b) 10 centuries.
(c) 2 centuries.
(d) 4,000 years.
4. What is Athos' professional specialty?
(a) Archeology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Geology.
5. Where do Athos and Jakob take up residence in Toronto?
(a) Heathside Gardens Apartments.
(b) The home of another professor.
(c) Athos' third cousin's home.
(d) Men's homeless shelter.
6. Why does Jakob suffer from scurvy?
(a) The Nazis loot the fruit groves.
(b) There is a storm that knocks their three fruit trees down.
(c) There is a drought and the fruit trees die.
(d) They cannot afford to buy fruit.
7. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?
(a) War as a way of change.
(b) The virus of exclusion.
(c) Death as a solution.
(d) The virus of violence.
8. How is the site perfectly preserved?
(a) It has been encased in peat.
(b) The occupants intentionally took steps to preserve it.
(c) It is petrified.
(d) It is only partially preserved.
9. What does Athos say stones do?
(a) Give a sense of destiny.
(b) Give a sense of the importance of the moment.
(c) Hold human time.
(d) Roots one to their past.
10. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?
(a) Greek revolutionaries.
(b) Nazis.
(c) Communists.
(d) Americans.
11. What does Athos do at the first sign of danger?
(a) Sits in the chair shaking in terror.
(b) Makes his way up the mountain to a cave.
(c) Climbs in the sea chest.
(d) Crawls under the bed.
12. What reminds Jakob of his mother and Bella?
(a) Daphne's goodbye squeeze.
(b) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming down from the hills.
(c) Seeing all the Jewish woman coming out of the caves.
(d) A guess from a young woman at the docks.
13. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?
(a) An old colleague of Athos.
(b) The Polish consul.
(c) The mayor of Athens.
(d) A Greek Orthodox priest.
14. Of what is Athos the last?
(a) His siblings.
(b) Those who can interpret a rare hieroglyphic alphabet.
(c) Those who can read a specialized Greek.
(d) A seafaring family.
15. Where does Jakob learn to live a normal life as Athos prepares for their move to Canada?
(a) He does not learn this.
(b) From Kostas and Daphne.
(c) From the other boys of the town.
(d) From Sikelianos.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Jakob miss when living with Athos?
2. Who is Athos?
3. What often makes Athos feel depressed?
4. Where do Jakob and Alex meet?
5. Who is Helen?
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