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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 his parents' experience in Treblinka.
(b) About Jakob and Michaela.
(c) About him and Naomi.
(d) About how he escapes his home.

2. What returns to Michaela when she speaks?
(a) Her clarity.
(b) Her body.
(c) Her goodness.
(d) Her mind.

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

4. 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 buried them.
(d) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.

5. What does Michaela allow Jakob to do?
(a) Go to her flat.
(b) Obtain her phone number.
(c) Read her a poem of his.
(d) Touch her.

6. About what does Maurice worry?
(a) That Maurice will have to work many hours with Ben.
(b) That Jakob's journals are lost in the huge library.
(c) That Ben will misinterpret Jakob's journals.
(d) That Ben will not be persistent.

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

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

9. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?
(a) He cannot locate Athos' library.
(b) At the home of a former Nazi.
(c) In the basement of the public library.
(d) In Roussos.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what did Ben have nightmares?

2. What do Ben and Petra discover when they pull down the covers on Jakob's bed?

3. Who is Petra?

4. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?

5. What does Ben's father forbid anyone mentioning?

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