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

2. What does making love with Petra do for Ben?
(a) Make him believe in her power to command the gods.
(b) Helps him shake free of many lives.
(c) Makes him think he is not human.
(d) Makes his burdened with anxiety.

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

4. Who visits Ben before he is five?
(a) His maternal grandmother.
(b) A demon.
(c) An angel.
(d) Jakob Beer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jakob feel when he returns to Greece?

2. What does Idhra do for Jakob?

3. What is Idhra like in late September?

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

5. In what color can a Polish painter Jakob meets not paint?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Jakob think about concerning a child?

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

6. Describe Jakob's first meeting with Michaela.

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

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

9. What theme does Ben incorporate into his thesis?

10. What is Jakob's work in Greece?

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