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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. What does legend say the Manitoulins did?
(a) Burn down their island to exorcise a spirit.
(b) Cut themselves with thousands of tiny cuts to exercise demons.
(c) Force roles upon each person.
(d) Exorcise every youth and some did not survive.

2. For what does Jakob yearn?
(a) Forgetfulness.
(b) A child.
(c) A way to love Michaela with no barriers.
(d) A sense of purpose now that his writings are complete.

3. How does Ben react to the sight of the harbor at Idhra?
(a) He is disappointed.
(b) He gasps.
(c) He finds it exciting but unintelligible.
(d) He thinks it's cluttered but interesting.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jakob make a living?

2. What can lightning to to clothing?

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

4. Approximately how many volts are in a bolt of lightning?

5. What does Ben study carefully that is a bit disorienting?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jakob "win" Naomi's heart?

2. How does Ben compare Petra's skin and lightning imprints?

3. How are Ben's parents described?

4. How does being in Jakob's house affect Ben?

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

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

7. What does Ben say about lightning?

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

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

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

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