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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the house remind Ben?
(a) Uninterrupted lives when Vesuvius 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 Krakatoa erupted.

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

3. What do Ben and Petra discover when they pull down the covers on Jakob's bed?
(a) A note from Michaela to Jakob.
(b) A handwritten group of poems no one has seen.
(c) A note from Jakob to Bella.
(d) A note from Michaela to her brother.

4. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?
(a) Food.
(b) Information.
(c) Doors.
(d) Guns.

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

6. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?
(a) Ostentatiously.
(b) With much elaborate preparations.
(c) Incognito.
(d) Simply but openly.

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

8. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?
(a) Exorcise every youth and some did not survive.
(b) Burn down their island to exorcise a spirit.
(c) Force roles upon each person.
(d) Cut themselves with thousands of tiny cuts to exercise demons.

9. Of what is Jakob afraid concerning Michaela?
(a) Giving her too much of himself.
(b) Losing her.
(c) Giving her too little of herself.
(d) Hurting her.

10. Of what does Michaela speak enthusiastically?
(a) Her Russian-Spanish heritage.
(b) Being a woman in a man's world.
(c) Her work with various varieties of grapes.
(d) Having children.

11. How does Ben react to the sight of the harbor at Idhra?
(a) He gasps.
(b) He thinks it's cluttered but interesting.
(c) He finds it exciting but unintelligible.
(d) He is disappointed.

12. Over what have Ben and Naomi been fighting when they meet Jakob and Michaela?
(a) The care Naomi gives her parents' grave.
(b) Having children.
(c) Naomi working outside the home.
(d) Moving to Israel.

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

14. How is Naomi described as usually being?
(a) Warm.
(b) Shy.
(c) Exuberant.
(d) Aloof.

15. Why does Jakob say Germans tried to dehumanize Jews?
(a) So the Jews would believe the lies about themselves.
(b) So they could receive approval of the world at large for their atrocities.
(c) To make it easier to murder them.
(d) To convince others that genocide was acceptable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ben's favorite poet?

2. When are Ben's parents liberated from a concentration camp?

3. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?

4. What is Idhra like in late September?

5. What does Ben say the quest to recover someone's psyche is?

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