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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 Jakob say every moment is?
(a) Two moments.
(b) A chance.
(c) An opportunity.
(d) Pain relived.

2. What does Athos do because he senses he is running out of time?
(a) Sends Jakob out more and more often to become self-sufficient.
(b) Contacts his family.
(c) Writes his book.
(d) Gets Jakob secure financially.

3. What do Athos' stories evoke in Jakob?
(a) The desire for revenge.
(b) The need to know what happened to his parents.
(c) Images of Jakob's family and friends.
(d) The desire to confront his family's killers.

4. What does Jakob wonder about Holocaust survivors?
(a) If they feel guilty.
(b) How they feel surrounded by so much food.
(c) If they hate.
(d) If their dead haunt them the way Jakob's haunt him.

5. What do Athos and Jakob gather?
(a) Fellow strays.
(b) Pieces of art about the Holocaust.
(c) Pieces of art about the Jewish people.
(d) News.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jakob wonder if remembering does?

2. What does Jakob dream about as he sleeps?

3. Where is Jakob's fifteen-year-old sister?

4. What is Athos' professional specialty?

5. About what does Jakob feel wrong?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jakob contrast history and memory?

2. What is Biskupin and what happens to it?

3. What does Jakob do after he witnesses the invasion of his home?

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

5. What does Kostas say about Palamas and Sikelianos?

6. Why does Athos choose Toronto as the place to relocate?

7. Where is Jakob Beer at the opening of the novel, and what is he doing?

8. Describe Alex.

9. What did Jakob Beer witness as he hid in the bog?

10. What is Toronto like and where do Athos and Jakob go to live?

(see the answer keys)

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