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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Just Man of the Flies, Part 5 | Chapter 4, The Just Man of the Flies, Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ernie join the street gang?
(a) To be near Ilse Bruckner.
(b) To follow his brother Moritz.
(c) He loves fighting.
(d) To have playmates.

2. How are the letters made familiar to the young child?
(a) Soaking them in honey and giving them to him to suck on.
(b) Drawing them on common household objects.
(c) Shaping cookies into their shapes.
(d) Cutting them out of sandpaper so they can be felt.

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

4. How does Ernie's family learn that the squadron of anti-Semites is coming?
(a) Mordecai hears them.
(b) Judith hears them.
(c) Benjamin hears them.
(d) Frau Blumenthal hears them.

5. What does Benjamin attempt to give the villagers but finds he cannot?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) A joke.
(c) Free mending.
(d) Recipes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernie win for good performance in school?

2. What does the legend say would happen to the world if one of the Just Men were lacking?

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

4. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?

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

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