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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. Of what does being moral consist in the time of the Holocaust?
(a) Refusing to participate in evil.
(b) The tiniest acts.
(c) The knowledge of what is happening and changing.
(d) The greatest acts.

2. What does Ben say the quest to recover someone's psyche is?
(a) A voyoristic exercise.
(b) A futile act.
(c) A function of love.
(d) A gift to those lost.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben find tucked into the roof of where he is staying?

2. What is significant of Salonika?

3. What does Jakob note about how Jews live?

4. Why does Jakob say Germans tried to dehumanize Jews?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Ben find in Jakob's study?

4. What is Jakob's work in Greece?

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

6. What is the significance of the color yellow?

7. What theme does Ben incorporate into his thesis?

8. Describe Jakob's first meeting with Michaela.

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

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

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