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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

4. 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.

5. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) Psalms.
(c) The Stranger.
(d) Genesis.

6. To what does Maurice suggest that Ben's thesis correlate?
(a) Tides.
(b) Weather.
(c) Work.
(d) Colors.

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

8. What does Jakob think Bella wants to do for him?
(a) Show him his potential.
(b) Get close enough to push him back into the world.
(c) Teach him love.
(d) Show him how well they all are.

9. What is Bella doing in Jakob's imagination?
(a) Trying to get out.
(b) Crying.
(c) Practicing her keyboard fingering.
(d) Searching for him.

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

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

12. 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) Naomi working outside the home.
(d) Having children.

13. How did people study the nature of lightening up to the eighteenth century?
(a) By its appearance.
(b) They had no interest in studying lightening.
(c) By its frequency.
(d) By its effect.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben's father do for a living?

2. Who is Petra?

3. What does Naomi do to escape the heat and humidity?

4. What time does the painted clock at Treblinka station always read?

5. What is Ben's favorite poet?

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