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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 is too weak to come to Idhra?
(a) Naomi.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Kostas.
(d) Michaela.

2. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?
(a) Force roles upon each person.
(b) Burn down their island to exorcise a spirit.
(c) Cut themselves with thousands of tiny cuts to exercise demons.
(d) Exorcise every youth and some did not survive.

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

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

5. What do Ben and Petra do inside of getting into the bed?
(a) Make love in the gardens.
(b) Make love in the sunroom.
(c) Dress and go to dinner.
(d) Make love on the floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "No Mortal Foe"?

2. In what color can a Polish painter Jakob meets not paint?

3. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?

4. What reminds Ben of his parents' shoes and mended clothing?

5. What returns to Michaela when she speaks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some facets to Naomi?

2. How are Ben's parents described?

3. How does Ben find Jakob's study?

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

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

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

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

8. What is the significance of the color yellow?

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

10. What is Jakob's work in Greece?

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