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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Ben first meet Jakob and Michaela?
(a) Jakob's book signing.
(b) Michaela's birthday party.
(c) A memorial service for Athos.
(d) Irena's birthday party.

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

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

5. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?
(a) Guns.
(b) Food.
(c) Information.
(d) Doors.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.
(b) Why Jakob burns some of them.
(c) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.
(d) Where Jakob might have buried them.

11. What does Michaela do when Jakob tells her about Bella?
(a) Jakob does not tell Michaela about Bella.
(b) Weeps for her.
(c) Tries to reassure Jakob that she is in a better place.
(d) She does not give much response as she does not know what to say.

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

13. What helps Ben understand his nightmares?
(a) Reading Jakob Beer.
(b) Visiting Treblinka.
(c) His grandmother's letters.
(d) Studying the Holocaust.

14. What does Idhra do for Jakob?
(a) Liberates his mind.
(b) Opens his memory.
(c) Plunges him into a deeper depression.
(d) Liberates his heart.

15. How is Naomi described as usually being?
(a) Warm.
(b) Shy.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Exuberant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes Jakob to want to show Michaela the Aegean?

3. What does Ben find tucked into the roof of where he is staying?

4. About what does Maurice worry?

5. How does Jakob feel when he returns to Greece?

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