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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over what have Ben and Naomi been fighting when they meet Jakob and Michaela?
(a) Moving to Israel.
(b) The care Naomi gives her parents' grave.
(c) Naomi working outside the home.
(d) Having children.

2. What can lightning to to clothing?
(a) Weaken the material.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Expand it so it falls off.
(d) Contracts it so it's too tight.

3. How does the famed rabbi travel in the parable?
(a) Ostentatiously.
(b) Incognito.
(c) Simply but openly.
(d) With much elaborate preparations.

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

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

6. What reminds Ben of his parents' shoes and mended clothing?
(a) A jumble of sandals in Jakob's study.
(b) Two elderly Jews walking past in the street.
(c) A description in one of Jakob's journals.
(d) A picture of a medicant preacher.

7. How did people study the nature of lightening up to the eighteenth century?
(a) By its effect.
(b) By its appearance.
(c) They had no interest in studying lightening.
(d) By its frequency.

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

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

10. What causes Jakob to want to show Michaela the Aegean?
(a) Comparing the sea's color with her eyes.
(b) Seeing how she loves the land of her youth.
(c) Seeing gulls fly overhead on their way across the land.
(d) Her yearning to see the vast expanse of a sea.

11. What does Michaela do for Ben?
(a) Lets him see the past.
(b) Intensifies his belief in Jakob's vision.
(c) Lets him see the future.
(d) Softens his perceptions of Jakob's pain.

12. How does Jakob make a living?
(a) Vineyards.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Greek-English translations.
(d) Teaching.

13. In what color can a Polish painter Jakob meets not paint?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

14. What is Ben's favorite poet?
(a) Athos.
(b) Militias.
(c) He is not a lover of poetry.
(d) Jakob Beer.

15. How does Jakob feel in Greece?
(a) Completely at home.
(b) A prodigal son.
(c) A pariah.
(d) At home and forever a stranger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why can't Ben's father retire when he is of age?

3. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?

4. Who visits Ben before he is five?

5. Who is Petra?

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