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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Approximately how many volts are in a bolt of lightning?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 400 million.
(c) 3000.
(d) 1 million.

4. Who is Petra?
(a) Michaela's sister.
(b) Jakob's aunt.
(c) A woman Ben is attracted to.
(d) Ben's librarian friend.

5. What does Ben's father do for a living?
(a) Train conductor.
(b) Physician.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Music conductor.

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

7. What is Ben's favorite poet?
(a) Jakob Beer.
(b) Athos.
(c) He is not a lover of poetry.
(d) Militias.

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

9. Who visits Ben before he is five?
(a) His maternal grandmother.
(b) A demon.
(c) An angel.
(d) Jakob Beer.

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

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

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

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

14. What is significant of Salonika?
(a) It is where Jews, Christians, and Muslims once lived in harmony.
(b) It is where Jakob finds information about Bella.
(c) It is where Jakob produces his greatest works of poetry.
(d) It is where Athos' ashes are strewn.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?

3. How does Jakob's home influence Jakob?

4. Why does Jakob say Germans tried to dehumanize Jews?

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

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