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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 were the Levys never able to identify about the Just Man in their family?
(a) The signs by which God made his choice.
(b) The identifying features of a Just Man in childhood.
(c) The purpose of a Just man.
(d) The way to treat a Just Man.

2. What is Ilse Bruckner first in at Ernie's school?
(a) Science.
(b) Music.
(c) German.
(d) Mathematics.

3. What does Mordecai tell Ernie he will eventually begin to do as a Just Man?
(a) Work to save the world.
(b) Redeem his people.
(c) Glow.
(d) Become wise.

4. What is each generation's joking response to "Let us speak of something gay"?
(a) What's new about the war?
(b) What's new with the Jews?
(c) How is the Inquisition going?
(d) What do you hear about the plague?

5. What does Herr Kremer believe is more powerful than politics?
(a) Love.
(b) Reason.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Ernie decide he will represent as a Just Man if people reject him?

2. Why did the Jews refuse to work in Polish factories when the country industrialized?

3. What is the title of the march of the Pimpfe?

4. Why is Chaim's son, the Just Man, called Brother Beast?

5. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Benjamin successfully market himself as a tailor?

2. Why does Judith blame herself for the death of three of her sons?

3. Why is Jacob not consoled when Ernie promises to "spring" at the Hitler Youth if they bother the little boy?

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

5. What does Ernie have in common with the German boy he meets when he runs away from home?

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

7. What solution does Moritz think would relieve the Jews of the danger involved in going to the synagogue.

8. How does Judith recognize Mordecai as a Just Man?

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

10. How does the child Ernie come to feel that he is in charge of those around him?

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