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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. Where does Jakob image Bella being?
(a) A vault.
(b) A German officer's home.
(c) A home for orphans.
(d) A camp barracks.

2. Of what does Michaela speak enthusiastically?
(a) Being a woman in a man's world.
(b) Having children.
(c) Her Russian-Spanish heritage.
(d) Her work with various varieties of grapes.

3. What does making love with Petra do for Ben?
(a) Makes him think he is not human.
(b) Make him believe in her power to command the gods.
(c) Helps him shake free of many lives.
(d) Makes his burdened with anxiety.

4. What is one thing Ben dreads when young?
(a) Hebrew lessons.
(b) Piano lessons.
(c) Attending synagogue.
(d) Going to school.

5. Of what is Michaela afraid after visiting a museum?
(a) Her lands falling into other people's hands.
(b) Her culture dying.
(c) At the size of people in centuries past.
(d) Becoming mummified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is possible with recorded history?

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

3. What is Ben's favorite poet?

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

5. What helps Ben understand his nightmares?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jakob think about as far as the Nazis' effort to dehumanize the Jews?

2. What theme does Ben incorporate into his thesis?

3. What is the significance of the color yellow?

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

5. How are Ben's parents described?

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

7. What is Jakob's work in Greece?

8. What are some facets to Naomi?

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

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

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