2. What stories does Ben tell Petra?
(a) About Jakob and Michaela.
(b) About how he escapes his home.
(c) About him and Naomi.
(d) About his parents' experience in Treblinka.

3. What volume does Jakob select to read himself to sleep?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Genesis.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) The Stranger.

4. To what does Maurice suggest that Ben's thesis correlate?
(a) Work.
(b) Tides.
(c) Colors.
(d) Weather.

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

6. Upon what does Jakob sometimes lecture?
(a) Athos' work.
(b) The Holocaust.
(c) Living while the dead are inside you.
(d) Living with grief.

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

8. Where does Jakob look through Athos' library?
(a) He cannot locate Athos' library.
(b) In Roussos.
(c) In the basement of the public library.
(d) At the home of a former Nazi.

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

10. When does Ben arrive on Idhra?
(a) When a stifling air mass is becalmed over the area.
(b) In the middle of a serious typhoon.
(c) At a time of refreshing winds.
(d) When the tide surges are higher than normal.

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

12. What does Ben imagine happening to Petra as a child?
(a) Being made to sit in the corner to dampen down her sensuality.
(b) He cannot imagine her as a child.
(c) Being imprinted by lightning.
(d) Being frozen in a pose of beauty.

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

14. What is Zakynthos like?
(a) Thriving.
(b) He cannot even find it.
(c) In ruins.
(d) People he does not know live there.

15. What can ball lightning do in a room?
(a) There is no such thing as ball lightning.
(b) Circle it and exit without causing any harm.
(c) It can blow out all the electronics without ever touching any of them.
(d) It can make your clothes shrink.