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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?
(a) They never ask forgiveness of the rabbi.
(b) He offers forgiveness freely.
(c) He offers forgiveness with stipulations.
(d) He cannot give it as it was the man on the train who they ridiculed.

2. When are Ben's parents liberated from a concentration camp?
(a) Ten years before his birth.
(b) When he is two.
(c) Four years before his birth.
(d) His mother is pregnant with Ben when they are liberated.

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

4. How does Jakob feel when he returns to Greece?
(a) As if he were home.
(b) Happy.
(c) Disoriented.
(d) Wrong.

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

6. Who are Yoshi and Tomas?
(a) Two vineyard workers.
(b) Two young scholars at the University.
(c) The Salmans' sons.
(d) Jakob's young sons.

7. How does Jakob feel in Greece?
(a) A prodigal son.
(b) Completely at home.
(c) A pariah.
(d) At home and forever a stranger.

8. About what did Ben have nightmares?
(a) Doors axed down.
(b) The grandmother becoming an SS trooper.
(c) The demon sucking his blood dry.
(d) The hiss of gas.

9. What is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?
(a) Forgiveness is possible but penance is required.
(b) Nothing erases an immoral act.
(c) Forgivness is not automatic.
(d) Be kind to all since you do not know if someone is an angel.

10. What reminds Ben of his parents' shoes and mended clothing?
(a) A description in one of Jakob's journals.
(b) Two elderly Jews walking past in the street.
(c) A picture of a medicant preacher.
(d) A jumble of sandals in Jakob's study.

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

12. When does Jakob finish writing his life's stories?
(a) Winter, 1994.
(b) Fall, 1993.
(c) Summer, 1992.
(d) Spring, 1990.

13. What is Michaela's occupation?
(a) Secretary.
(b) Housewife.
(c) Vineyard adminstrator.
(d) Museum administrator.

14. 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) Being frozen in a pose of beauty.
(d) He cannot imagine her as a child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Michaela afraid after visiting a museum?

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

3. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?

4. What is Ben's favorite poet?

5. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?

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