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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Stillenstadt, Part 1 | Chapter 3, Stillenstadt, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mordecai say their hearts are not entirely Jewish?
(a) They feel happy.
(b) They are literate.
(c) They are not afraid.
(d) They feel at home.

2. Why does Mordecai Levy advise the village girl he meets to be kind to him?
(a) He might be a messenger from God.
(b) He might be a messenger from the devil.
(c) He might be the love of her life.
(d) He might be a spy from her father.

3. What did Yankel, the young Galician, do to his fellow villagers?
(a) He deserted them all.
(b) He rescued them all.
(c) He buried them all.
(d) He killed them all.

4. What question does Judith raise that Mordecai cannot answer?
(a) Why do Just Men die in their beds?
(b) Why does God require the existence of Just Men?
(c) What sin have they committed?
(d) What do Just Men do for the world?

5. Why did the Jews refuse to work in Polish factories when the country industrialized?
(a) They thought the factories were devilish.
(b) They preferred honorable starvation to work.
(c) They could not observe the Sabbath.
(d) They were too frail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Yankel, the young Galician, do when he saw the parade of fascists?

2. How did Rabbi Yom Tov Levy get his people out of the besieged watchtower of York?

3. How does Chaim Levy attract the children of the village where he lives?

4. Why doesn't Judith rejoice when she becomes pregnant for the fourth time?

5. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?

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