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

2. What is the name of Jakob's work that shows Athos' influence?
(a) High Cliffs.
(b) Groundwork.
(c) Down Below the Water.
(d) Away is the Night.

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

4. For how long does Ben search for Jakob's journals?
(a) Weeks.
(b) He does not need to search as they are all in shelves in the library.
(c) Days.
(d) Months.

5. How does Jakob feel when he returns to Greece?
(a) As if he were home.
(b) Disoriented.
(c) Wrong.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Ben before he is five?

2. What is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?

3. What is significant of Salonika?

4. What returns to Michaela when she speaks?

5. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Ben find Jakob's study?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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