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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 Michaela do when Jakob tells her about Bella?
(a) Tries to reassure Jakob that she is in a better place.
(b) She does not give much response as she does not know what to say.
(c) Jakob does not tell Michaela about Bella.
(d) Weeps for her.

2. What time does the painted clock at Treblinka station always read?
(a) 12 o'clock.
(b) 3 o'clock.
(c) 1 o'clock.
(d) 9 o'clock.

3. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?
(a) A hand-drawn map.
(b) A dry-docked ship.
(c) A labyrinthine in the garden.
(d) A intricate pattern on the den's wallpaper.

4. Into what is despair transformed in the gas chambers?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Joy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Faith.

5. What opinion does Jakob offer on the issue about which Naomi and Ben are fighting?
(a) He supports Ben.
(b) He supports Naomi.
(c) He has no opinion.
(d) He thinks a compromise is fairly easy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Jakob's work that shows Athos' influence?

2. What stories does Ben tell Petra?

3. How did people study the nature of lightening up to the eighteenth century?

4. What can ball lightning do in a room?

5. What returns to Michaela when she speaks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What theme does Ben incorporate into his thesis?

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

8. What is the significance of the color yellow?

9. What are some facets to Naomi?

10. How does Jakob relate a theory by Einstein to the Holocaust?

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