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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. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?
(a) In Roussos.
(b) He cannot locate Athos' library.
(c) In the basement of the public library.
(d) At the home of a former Nazi.

2. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) Psalms.
(c) The Stranger.
(d) Genesis.

3. In what color can a Polish painter Jakob meets not paint?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

4. What does Jakob think Bella wants to do for him?
(a) Show him his potential.
(b) Teach him love.
(c) Show him how well they all are.
(d) Get close enough to push him back into the world.

5. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) Where Jakob might have buried them.
(b) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.
(c) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.
(d) Why Jakob burns some of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?

2. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?

3. What is the name of Jakob's work that shows Athos' influence?

4. How does Ben react to the sight of the harbor at Idhra?

5. How is Naomi described as usually being?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jakob's visions of prisoners going to the gas chamber.

2. How are Ben's parents described?

3. What does Jakob think about concerning a child?

4. What does Jakob think about as far as the Nazis' effort to dehumanize the Jews?

5. How does Ben compare Petra's skin and lightning imprints?

6. How does Ben's father escape a Nazi camp?

7. What does Ben recall about his father and mother when Ben is growing up?

8. What is Jakob's work in Greece?

9. What does Michaela say about her parents and the pioneer museum?

10. What does Ben find in Jakob's study?

(see the answer keys)

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