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

2. How is Naomi described as usually being?
(a) Exuberant.
(b) Warm.
(c) Shy.
(d) Aloof.

3. What stories does Ben tell Petra?
(a) About Jakob and Michaela.
(b) About him and Naomi.
(c) About his parents' experience in Treblinka.
(d) About how he escapes his home.

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

5. What helps Ben understand his nightmares?
(a) Visiting Treblinka.
(b) His grandmother's letters.
(c) Studying the Holocaust.
(d) Reading Jakob Beer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ben and Petra discover when they pull down the covers on Jakob's bed?

2. What does Ben say the quest to recover someone's psyche is?

3. What does Ben's father forbid anyone mentioning?

4. How does Ben react to the sight of the harbor at Idhra?

5. How does Jakob make a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ben find Jakob's study?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the significance of the color yellow?

8. What does Ben say about lightning?

9. How are Ben's parents described?

10. What is Jakob's work in Greece?

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