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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. What returns to Michaela when she speaks?
(a) Her goodness.
(b) Her mind.
(c) Her body.
(d) Her clarity.

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

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

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

5. What does Ben's father do for a living?
(a) Train conductor.
(b) Physician.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Music conductor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stories does Ben tell Petra?

2. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?

3. What does making love with Petra do for Ben?

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

5. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ben find in Jakob's study?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Michaela say about her parents and the pioneer museum?

7. How does Ben find Jakob's study?

8. What are some facets to Naomi?

9. Describe Ben's futile search for Jakob's journals.

10. Who visits Ben before he is five and what is the result?

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