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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. For how long does Ben search for Jakob's journals?
(a) He does not need to search as they are all in shelves in the library.
(b) Weeks.
(c) Days.
(d) Months.

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

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

7. How does Jakob make a living?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Vineyards.
(c) Greek-English translations.
(d) Poetry.

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

9. What does Ben say the quest to recover someone's psyche is?
(a) A gift to those lost.
(b) A futile act.
(c) A voyoristic exercise.
(d) A function of love.

10. About what did Ben have nightmares?
(a) The demon sucking his blood dry.
(b) The grandmother becoming an SS trooper.
(c) The hiss of gas.
(d) Doors axed down.

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

12. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?
(a) A dry-docked ship.
(b) A hand-drawn map.
(c) A labyrinthine in the garden.
(d) A intricate pattern on the den's wallpaper.

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

14. For what does Jakob yearn?
(a) A child.
(b) A way to love Michaela with no barriers.
(c) A sense of purpose now that his writings are complete.
(d) Forgetfulness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Petra?

2. What is Ben's favorite poet?

3. To what does Maurice suggest that Ben's thesis correlate?

4. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?

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

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