2. Of what is Michaela afraid after visiting a museum?
(a) Becoming mummified.
(b) Her culture dying.
(c) Her lands falling into other people's hands.
(d) At the size of people in centuries past.

3. What does Naomi do to escape the heat and humidity?
(a) Turns the thermostat down in the house.
(b) Lies in the spring in the back of the house.
(c) Turns the A/C on high in her car.
(d) Takes a cold shower.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Michaela do for Ben?
(a) Lets him see the past.
(b) Softens his perceptions of Jakob's pain.
(c) Intensifies his belief in Jakob's vision.
(d) Lets him see the future.

11. What opinion does Jakob offer on the issue about which Naomi and Ben are fighting?
(a) He supports Ben.
(b) He thinks a compromise is fairly easy.
(c) He has no opinion.
(d) He supports Naomi.

12. What can ball lightning do in a room?
(a) It can make your clothes shrink.
(b) Circle it and exit without causing any harm.
(c) There is no such thing as ball lightning.
(d) It can blow out all the electronics without ever touching any of them.

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

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

15. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?
(a) The tiniest acts.
(b) Refusing to participate in evil.
(c) The greatest acts.
(d) The knowledge of what is happening and changing.