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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. When are Ben's parents liberated from a concentration camp?
(a) His mother is pregnant with Ben when they are liberated.
(b) When he is two.
(c) Four years before his birth.
(d) Ten years before his birth.

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

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

4. What is the moral of the parable about the rabbi?
(a) Forgivness is not automatic.
(b) Forgiveness is possible but penance is required.
(c) Nothing erases an immoral act.
(d) Be kind to all since you do not know if someone is an angel.

5. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?
(a) Ostentatiously.
(b) Simply but openly.
(c) Incognito.
(d) With much elaborate preparations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?

3. Of what is Michaela afraid after visiting a museum?

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

5. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jakob's work in Greece?

2. How does Ben find Jakob's study?

3. How does Jakob "win" Naomi's heart?

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

5. What theme does Ben incorporate into his thesis?

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

7. What is the significance of the color yellow?

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

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

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

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