At one point, Mr. Kaminsky was asked to produce 900 birth and baptismal certificates and ration cards for 300 Jewish children in institutional homes who were about to be rounded up. The aim was to deceive the Germans until the children could be smuggled out to rural families or convents, or to Switzerland and Spain. He was given three days to finish the assignment.

He toiled for two straight days, forcing himself to stay awake by telling himself: “In one hour I can make 30 blank documents. If I sleep for an hour 30 people will die.”

Mr. Kaminsky died on Monday at his home in Paris, his daughter Sarah Kaminsky said. He was 97.

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Section A: Multiple Choice (60 points)

Instructions: Read the following questions carefully and choose the letter that best describes the answer. Write your letter on a separate sheet of paper.

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Your name is Annabeth Chase. You are nineteen years old.

One night, you dream of your older brother. In the dream, he walks into your room - your old room back at Camp Half-Blood - and sits on the edge of your bed. He looks like how you remember him most.

QUESTION #1: When you look at him, he is __________ (10 points)

a. fourteen years old, cheeks still rounded with childhood, your hand clutched in his (back when it was the three of you against the world)

b. seventeen years old and braiding your hair in your bedroom, golden sunlight rippling through the curtains, where there were no wars to fight and family always stayed together and kids never died too soon before their time

c. twenty-one years old and holding the weight of the sky on his shoulders, asking you to take his place (knowing what it means. asking it of you anyway)

d. twenty-three years old and dying on the marble floors of mount olympus (you cannot save him. you never could)

e. all of the above

QUESTION #2: He speaks gently of __________ (10 points)

a. his mother

b. his father

c. you

QUESTION #3: He wasn't always this way. He wasn't always so __________ (10 points)

a. angry

b. hopeless

c. cruel

d. all of the above

e. none of the above

QUESTION #4: You wonder if he feels __________ when he looks at you. (10 points)

a. hate (you feel that he should.)

b. regret (this scares you more than the hate.)

c. love

QUESTION #5: He tells you about __________ (10 points)

a. all the dreams he never got to fulfil

b. the last time his mother recognised his face

c. the life he'd always wanted for you and thalia

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BONUS QUESTION: When you look at him, you see __________ (0 points)

a. the hero of the great prophecy

b. a traitor with the blood of countless demigods on his hands

c. a man tired of weaving shrouds for children

d. your big brother

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END OF MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION.

Please make sure that all your answers are correct before submission. You cannot go back and change your answers once you have handed in your paper.