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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. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?
(a) In the basement of the public library.
(b) In Roussos.
(c) At the home of a former Nazi.
(d) He cannot locate Athos' library.

2. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.
(b) Why Jakob burns some of them.
(c) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.
(d) Where Jakob might have buried them.

3. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?
(a) Burn down their island to exorcise a spirit.
(b) Exorcise every youth and some did not survive.
(c) Force roles upon each person.
(d) Cut themselves with thousands of tiny cuts to exercise demons.

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

5. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?
(a) Being made to sit in the corner to dampen down her sensuality.
(b) Being frozen in a pose of beauty.
(c) He cannot imagine her as a child.
(d) Being imprinted by lightning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the house remind Ben?

2. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?

3. About what did Ben have nightmares?

4. When does Jakob feel safe above ground for the first time?

5. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Ben say about lightning?

4. What does Jakob think about concerning a child?

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

6. What is Salonika and how is it related to Jakob and Michaela?

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

8. What theme does Ben incorporate into his thesis?

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

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

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