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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. When does Jakob finish writing his life's stories?
(a) Summer, 1992.
(b) Fall, 1993.
(c) Winter, 1994.
(d) Spring, 1990.

2. About what does Maurice worry?
(a) That Maurice will have to work many hours with Ben.
(b) That Ben will misinterpret Jakob's journals.
(c) That Ben will not be persistent.
(d) That Jakob's journals are lost in the huge library.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Idhra do for Jakob?

2. How does Jakob's home influence Jakob?

3. What does the rabbi say when passengers ask his forgiveness?

4. With what does Ben write his parents are obsessed?

5. What can lightning to to clothing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are Jakob's initial days in Greece?

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

4. What does Michaela say about her parents and the pioneer museum?

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

6. What are some facets to Naomi?

7. What is the parable of the rabbi traveling incognito and what is the moral of the parable?

8. What does Ben say about lightning?

9. What is Salonika and how is it related to Jakob and Michaela?

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

(see the answer keys)

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