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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what did Ben have nightmares?
(a) Doors axed down.
(b) The grandmother becoming an SS trooper.
(c) The demon sucking his blood dry.
(d) The hiss of gas.

2. Approximately how many volts are in a bolt of lightning?
(a) 400 million.
(b) 3000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 100 million.

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

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

5. Why can't Ben's father retire when he is of age?
(a) He is not a citizen.
(b) His father retires with no problem.
(c) The official says his birth certificate is in error.
(d) He has not worked enough years.

6. What is "No Mortal Foe"?
(a) A treatise on angels.
(b) Jakob's third chapbook of poems.
(c) Ben's second book.
(d) A collection of essays by Jakob.

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

8. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?
(a) He offers forgiveness with stipulations.
(b) They never ask forgiveness of the rabbi.
(c) He cannot give it as it was the man on the train who they ridiculed.
(d) He offers forgiveness freely.

9. What is Michaela's occupation?
(a) Museum administrator.
(b) Housewife.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Vineyard adminstrator.

10. What does Ben's father do for a living?
(a) Physician.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Train conductor.
(d) Music conductor.

11. What does Ben picture about Jakob's journals?
(a) Where Jakob might have sat to write many of the journals.
(b) Where Jakob might have buried them.
(c) How Jakob was so faithful in recording in them every day.
(d) Why Jakob burns some of them.

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

13. What does Michaela allow Jakob to do?
(a) Touch her.
(b) Go to her flat.
(c) Obtain her phone number.
(d) Read her a poem of his.

14. What returns to Michaela when she speaks?
(a) Her mind.
(b) Her clarity.
(c) Her goodness.
(d) Her body.

15. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?
(a) Information.
(b) Food.
(c) Doors.
(d) Guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does the house remind Ben?

2. What is Idhra like in late September?

3. What time does the painted clock at Treblinka station always read?

4. What does Idhra do for Jakob?

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

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