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

2. About what does Maurice worry?
(a) That Ben will misinterpret Jakob's journals.
(b) That Ben will not be persistent.
(c) That Jakob's journals are lost in the huge library.
(d) That Maurice will have to work many hours with Ben.

3. 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) Show him how well they all are.
(d) Teach him love.

4. What is Zakynthos like?
(a) He cannot even find it.
(b) Thriving.
(c) People he does not know live there.
(d) In ruins.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?

3. What does Michaela do for Ben?

4. Upon what does Jakob sometimes lecture?

5. How does Jakob make a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ben recall about his father and mother when Ben is growing up?

2. What are some facets to Naomi?

3. Describe Jakob's first meeting with Michaela.

4. How does Ben's father escape a Nazi camp?

5. How does Jakob relate a theory by Einstein to the Holocaust?

6. How does Jakob "win" Naomi's heart?

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

8. What theme does Ben incorporate into his thesis?

9. How are Ben's parents described?

10. What does Jakob think about concerning a child?

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