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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what color can a Polish painter Jakob meets not paint?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

2. What reminds Ben of his parents' shoes and mended clothing?
(a) A description in one of Jakob's journals.
(b) Two elderly Jews walking past in the street.
(c) A jumble of sandals in Jakob's study.
(d) A picture of a medicant preacher.

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

4. What does Ben find tucked into the roof of where he is staying?
(a) A map.
(b) Jakob's private study.
(c) A key.
(d) A book of burial locations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Yoshi and Tomas?

2. What is Ben's favorite poet?

3. What opinion does Jakob offer on the issue about which Naomi and Ben are fighting?

4. How does Jakob make a living?

5. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ben compare Petra's skin and lightning imprints?

2. What does Jakob think about as far as the Nazis' effort to dehumanize the Jews?

3. What theme does Ben incorporate into his thesis?

4. What impact does being in Idhra have on Jakob?

5. How are Ben's parents described?

6. Describe Jakob's visions of prisoners going to the gas chamber.

7. What does Ben say about lightning?

8. What is the parable of the rabbi traveling incognito and what is the moral of the parable?

9. How are Jakob's initial days in Greece?

10. How does being in Jakob's house affect Ben?

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