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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 restaurants do Athos and Jakob frequent?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Italian.
(c) American.
(d) Constantine's.

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

3. What does Jacob see boys doing to produce squawks?
(a) Blowing homemade pipes.
(b) Sliding their fingers on wires.
(c) Blowing across bottle openings.
(d) Blowing on leaves of grass.

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

5. What is the state of Greece during this time?
(a) It is rapidly recovering from WWII.
(b) It has become a strong, financial center of the area.
(c) It is in ruins.
(d) It better off than many of the post-WWII countries, but not real good.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Athos help Jakob as far as the subtleties?

2. How is Alex actually?

3. What do the Greeks seem to have caught from the Germans?

4. Who is Athos?

5. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Kostas describe the various occupations?

5. Who is Athos and what does he pass on to Jakob?

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

7. How does Jakob end up in Greece?

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

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

10. What is Biskupin and what happens to it?

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