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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Stillenstadt, Part 5 | Chapter 3, Stillenstadt, Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Chaim's son, the Just Man, called Brother Beast?
(a) He is illiterate, and he loves no one.
(b) He is illiterate and cannot speak.
(c) He is illiterate, and he's cruel to people.
(d) He is illiterate and loves plants and animals more than people.

3. What does the ancient text say is the role of Israel in the world?
(a) To create the sufferings of mankind.
(b) To take upon itself the sufferings of mankind.
(c) To atone for the wrongs of mankind.
(d) To fight for justice.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Benjamin defend the apostate who returns to Judaism?

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

3. What does the village girl point out to Mordecai Levy?

4. What does Judith do when a soldier attacks Mordecai?

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

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