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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Approximately how many volts are in a bolt of lightning?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 400 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 3000.

3. What time does the painted clock at Treblinka station always read?
(a) 9 o'clock.
(b) 3 o'clock.
(c) 1 o'clock.
(d) 12 o'clock.

4. Of what does the house remind Ben?
(a) Uninterrupted lives when an avalanche buried a Canadian town in the Rockies.
(b) Uninterrupted lives when the last tidal wave struck Japan when he was there.
(c) Uninterrupted lives when Krakatoa erupted.
(d) Uninterrupted lives when Vesuvius erupted.

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

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

7. Who is Petra?
(a) A woman Ben is attracted to.
(b) Jakob's aunt.
(c) Michaela's sister.
(d) Ben's librarian friend.

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

9. 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 tiniest acts.
(d) The greatest acts.

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

11. Into what is despair transformed in the gas chambers?
(a) Anger.
(b) Joy.
(c) Faith.
(d) Forgiveness.

12. How does Jakob's home influence Jakob?
(a) It gives him a feeling of belonging.
(b) It gives him the confidence to write Groundwork.
(c) It gives him a feeling of safety to work.
(d) It gives him a belief in the future.

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

14. Upon what does Jakob sometimes lecture?
(a) Athos' work.
(b) The Holocaust.
(c) Living with grief.
(d) Living while the dead are inside you.

15. When does Ben arrive on Idhra?
(a) When a stifling air mass is becalmed over the area.
(b) At a time of refreshing winds.
(c) When the tide surges are higher than normal.
(d) In the middle of a serious typhoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is too weak to come to Idhra?

2. For what does Jakob yearn?

3. How is Naomi described as usually being?

4. When does Ben first meet Jakob and Michaela?

5. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?

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