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

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

3. What does Michaela allow Jakob to do?
(a) Go to her flat.
(b) Read her a poem of his.
(c) Touch her.
(d) Obtain her phone number.

4. Who are Yoshi and Tomas?
(a) Two young scholars at the University.
(b) Two vineyard workers.
(c) The Salmans' sons.
(d) Jakob's young sons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Jakob finish writing his life's stories?

2. Of what does the house remind Ben?

3. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?

4. When does Ben first meet Jakob and Michaela?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ben's relationship with Petra evolve?

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

4. What does Jakob think about concerning a child?

5. What are some facets to Naomi?

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

7. How does Ben find Jakob's study?

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

9. What is the significance of the color yellow?

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

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