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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?
(a) Practicing her keyboard fingering.
(b) Crying.
(c) Searching for him.
(d) Trying to get out.

3. What is possible with recorded history?
(a) It can be altered.
(b) It can be erased.
(c) It can be forgotten.
(d) It can be resurrected.

4. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?
(a) Piano lessons.
(b) Attending synagogue.
(c) Hebrew lessons.
(d) Going to school.

5. What does Ben's father forbid anyone mentioning?
(a) Relatives.
(b) The love of God.
(c) The past.
(d) Hitler's name.

6. What does Jakob experience when he first wakes in Michaela's bed?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Truth.
(c) Blending.
(d) Lightness.

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

8. What is the name of Jakob's work that shows Athos' influence?
(a) High Cliffs.
(b) Down Below the Water.
(c) Away is the Night.
(d) Groundwork.

9. What do Ben and Petra do inside of getting into the bed?
(a) Dress and go to dinner.
(b) Make love in the sunroom.
(c) Make love on the floor.
(d) Make love in the gardens.

10. What is Idhra like in late September?
(a) Cold.
(b) Empty.
(c) Full of tourists.
(d) Festive.

11. When does Jakob feel safe above ground for the first time?
(a) Emerging from some caves he is exploring.
(b) Lying in Michaela's arms.
(c) Laying a wreath where Athos' ashes are buried.
(d) Camping out in a birch forest during an electrical storm.

12. What is Zakynthos like?
(a) Thriving.
(b) He cannot even find it.
(c) In ruins.
(d) People he does not know live there.

13. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?
(a) Cut themselves with thousands of tiny cuts to exercise demons.
(b) Burn down their island to exorcise a spirit.
(c) Exorcise every youth and some did not survive.
(d) Force roles upon each person.

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

15. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?
(a) They live in the twilight.
(b) They live in an eternal present.
(c) They live in the labyrinthine.
(d) They live in an eternal past.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What opinion does Jakob offer on the issue about which Naomi and Ben are fighting?

3. What reminds Ben of his parents' shoes and mended clothing?

4. What stories does Ben tell Petra?

5. About what did Ben have nightmares?

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