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

2. What does Athos teach Jakob to cook?
(a) A Jewish seder meal.
(b) Canadian traditional food.
(c) Greek dishes.
(d) Blood pudding.

3. Who is Kostas Mitsialis?
(a) The mayor of Athens.
(b) The Polish consul.
(c) An old colleague of Athos.
(d) A Greek Orthodox priest.

4. Who hunts down and kills anyone well off?
(a) Nazis.
(b) Communists.
(c) Americans.
(d) Greek revolutionaries.

5. How does Jakob survive?
(a) Finds food at night and hides in the day.
(b) By relying upon more experienced adulst.
(c) By the kindness of several stangers.
(d) Because he was taught to do so.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emerges from Jakob's mind at night?

2. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

3. What is Athos' professional specialty?

4. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?

5. How does Athos know how to cook food that he forages?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Alex.

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

3. What does Kostas say about Palamas and Sikelianos?

4. How does Jakob meet Alex?

5. What thoughts does Jakob have about the Catalan Atlas and history?

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

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

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

9. Why do Athos and Jakob identify with explorers of Antarctica?

10. What does Jakob sense from his hiding place as his family is killed?

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