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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 do the German children hate most about Ernie?
(a) His gentleness.
(b) His intelligence.
(c) His courage.
(d) His stubbornness.

2. What does Moritz love best as a child?
(a) Studying.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Running.
(d) Swimming.

3. What did the Jewish elders find worst about World War I?
(a) Jews might be exempt from fighting.
(b) Jews might be killed by Christians.
(c) Jews might be barred from Israel.
(d) Jews might kill each other.

4. What is the title of the march of the Pimpfe?
(a) "Forward for the Fatherland."
(b) "Unity in Victory."
(c) "Strike, Pierce, and Kill."
(d) "All Who God Made German Sing."

5. Who are the Pimpfe?
(a) A street gang.
(b) Pioneers in Hitler Youth.
(c) The school elite.
(d) The school chorus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernie do with Ilse that infuriates Hans Schliemann?

2. What does Mordecai determine to teach Ernie while Ernie is still young?

3. What does Benjamin call his wife?

4. Why does Ernie decide that he cannot be a Just Man as he cleans his wounds after the bullying?

5. What are Jews called in Herr Kremer's school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mordecai answer the question of why the Just Man dies in bed, rather than in martyrdom?

2. What qualities of character does Brother Beast possess?

3. Why do Mordecai and Judith decide that Benjamin is like a mosquito?

4. Why did others regard Mordecai as a fallen Levy?

5. What is the role of the Lamed-Vov, the Just Men?

6. What does Ernie's act of stepping forward to protest the treatment of Frau Tuszynski cause Mordecai to do?

7. When Hitler becomes Chancellor of the Reich, what decision of her own does Judith regret?

8. What rationale does Rabbi Yom Tov Levy offer for the mass murder and suicide he instigates?

9. Why does Judith object to Mordecai telling stories to Ernie?

10. What does Ernie think when he feels no pain from the bumps and gashes he has suffered?

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