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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Phosphorus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did people study the nature of lightening up to the eighteenth century?
(a) By its appearance.
(b) By its effect.
(c) They had no interest in studying lightening.
(d) By its frequency.

2. With what composer was Bella once obsessed?
(a) Bartok.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Wagner.

3. What does Naomi do to escape the heat and humidity?
(a) Turns the thermostat down in the house.
(b) Turns the A/C on high in her car.
(c) Takes a cold shower.
(d) Lies in the spring in the back of the house.

4. How does Jakob approach listening to composers?
(a) Studying everything about the composer before listening to his/her work.
(b) Randomly.
(c) With just one ear covered by the headset.
(d) Systematically.

5. Why does Jakob say Germans tried to dehumanize Jews?
(a) So they could receive approval of the world at large for their atrocities.
(b) So the Jews would believe the lies about themselves.
(c) To convince others that genocide was acceptable.
(d) To make it easier to murder them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?

2. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?

3. Who preaches freedom at Palamas' funeral?

4. What stories does Jakob remember Bella telling?

5. What does Jakob think Bella wants to do for him?

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