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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. About what did Ben have nightmares?
(a) Doors axed down.
(b) The demon sucking his blood dry.
(c) The hiss of gas.
(d) The grandmother becoming an SS trooper.

2. What does Michaela do for Ben?
(a) Lets him see the future.
(b) Lets him see the past.
(c) Softens his perceptions of Jakob's pain.
(d) Intensifies his belief in Jakob's vision.

3. What does Jakob think Bella wants to do for him?
(a) Get close enough to push him back into the world.
(b) Show him how well they all are.
(c) Teach him love.
(d) Show him his potential.

4. What does Idhra do for Jakob?
(a) Opens his memory.
(b) Plunges him into a deeper depression.
(c) Liberates his heart.
(d) Liberates his mind.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ben's father do for a living?

3. Of what is Jakob afraid concerning Michaela?

4. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?

5. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the significance of the color yellow?

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

7. How does being in Jakob's house affect Ben?

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

9. What are some facets to Naomi?

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

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