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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Jakob make a living?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Vineyards.
(d) Greek-English translations.
2. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?
(a) The knowledge of what is happening and changing.
(b) Refusing to participate in evil.
(c) The greatest acts.
(d) The tiniest acts.
3. About what does Maurice worry?
(a) That Ben will misinterpret Jakob's journals.
(b) That Jakob's journals are lost in the huge library.
(c) That Ben will not be persistent.
(d) That Maurice will have to work many hours with Ben.
4. In what color can a Polish painter Jakob meets not paint?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.
5. How does Jakob feel when he returns to Greece?
(a) Wrong.
(b) As if he were home.
(c) Disoriented.
(d) Happy.
6. What reminds Ben of his parents' shoes and mended clothing?
(a) Two elderly Jews walking past in the street.
(b) A description in one of Jakob's journals.
(c) A jumble of sandals in Jakob's study.
(d) A picture of a medicant preacher.
7. What does Idhra do for Jakob?
(a) Opens his memory.
(b) Plunges him into a deeper depression.
(c) Liberates his mind.
(d) Liberates his heart.
8. Of what does Michaela speak enthusiastically?
(a) Having children.
(b) Her Russian-Spanish heritage.
(c) Her work with various varieties of grapes.
(d) Being a woman in a man's world.
9. Of what is Jakob afraid concerning Michaela?
(a) Hurting her.
(b) Giving her too much of himself.
(c) Losing her.
(d) Giving her too little of herself.
10. Approximately how many volts are in a bolt of lightning?
(a) 400 million.
(b) 3000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 100 million.
11. Of what does the house remind Ben?
(a) Uninterrupted lives when Krakatoa erupted.
(b) Uninterrupted lives when an avalanche buried a Canadian town in the Rockies.
(c) Uninterrupted lives when the last tidal wave struck Japan when he was there.
(d) Uninterrupted lives when Vesuvius erupted.
12. Where does Jakob image Bella being?
(a) A vault.
(b) A camp barracks.
(c) A German officer's home.
(d) A home for orphans.
13. Who is too weak to come to Idhra?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Michaela.
(c) Kostas.
(d) Naomi.
14. Over what have Ben and Naomi been fighting when they meet Jakob and Michaela?
(a) Moving to Israel.
(b) The care Naomi gives her parents' grave.
(c) Having children.
(d) Naomi working outside the home.
15. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?
(a) Trying to get out.
(b) Practicing her keyboard fingering.
(c) Searching for him.
(d) Crying.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?
2. Upon what does Jakob sometimes lecture?
3. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?
4. For how long does Ben search for Jakob's journals?
5. When are Ben's parents liberated from a concentration camp?
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