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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "No Mortal Foe"?
(a) A collection of essays by Jakob.
(b) Ben's second book.
(c) A treatise on angels.
(d) Jakob's third chapbook of poems.

2. When does Ben arrive on Idhra?
(a) At a time of refreshing winds.
(b) In the middle of a serious typhoon.
(c) When a stifling air mass is becalmed over the area.
(d) When the tide surges are higher than normal.

3. Into what is despair transformed in the gas chambers?
(a) Faith.
(b) Joy.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Anger.

4. Of what does Michaela speak enthusiastically?
(a) Her work with various varieties of grapes.
(b) Her Russian-Spanish heritage.
(c) Having children.
(d) Being a woman in a man's world.

5. To what does Maurice suggest that Ben's thesis correlate?
(a) Weather.
(b) Work.
(c) Tides.
(d) Colors.

6. What can lightning to to clothing?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Weaken the material.
(c) Expand it so it falls off.
(d) Contracts it so it's too tight.

7. Where does Jakob image Bella being?
(a) A home for orphans.
(b) A camp barracks.
(c) A vault.
(d) A German officer's home.

8. Of what is Jakob afraid concerning Michaela?
(a) Hurting her.
(b) Giving her too much of himself.
(c) Giving her too little of herself.
(d) Losing her.

9. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?
(a) Being made to sit in the corner to dampen down her sensuality.
(b) Being imprinted by lightning.
(c) He cannot imagine her as a child.
(d) Being frozen in a pose of beauty.

10. What time does the painted clock at Treblinka station always read?
(a) 9 o'clock.
(b) 3 o'clock.
(c) 1 o'clock.
(d) 12 o'clock.

11. What stories does Ben tell Petra?
(a) About Jakob and Michaela.
(b) About his parents' experience in Treblinka.
(c) About him and Naomi.
(d) About how he escapes his home.

12. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?
(a) Incognito.
(b) With much elaborate preparations.
(c) Simply but openly.
(d) Ostentatiously.

13. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?
(a) A dry-docked ship.
(b) A intricate pattern on the den's wallpaper.
(c) A hand-drawn map.
(d) A labyrinthine in the garden.

14. Why can't Ben's father retire when he is of age?
(a) The official says his birth certificate is in error.
(b) He is not a citizen.
(c) His father retires with no problem.
(d) He has not worked enough years.

15. Upon what does Jakob sometimes lecture?
(a) Athos' work.
(b) The Holocaust.
(c) Living with grief.
(d) Living while the dead are inside you.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben's father do for a living?

2. What is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?

3. When does Jakob feel safe above ground for the first time?

4. What is possible with recorded history?

5. How does Jakob feel in Greece?

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