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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Dog, Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a brioche?
(a) A jowl.
(b) A paunchy belly.
(c) A beard.
(d) A sweet roll.

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

3. What did Judith call Benjamin's affliction when they arrived at Stillenstadt?
(a) A sign from God.
(b) A change of blood.
(c) A contagion from the Germans.
(d) A cleansing force.

4. What does Benjamin think will make Jews become Germans?
(a) Fear.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Duplicity.
(d) Torture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moritz love best as a child?

2. Why does Benjamin decide not to tell his wife that he is a Just Man?

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

4. What quotation from La Pasionara is repeated in Ernie's regiment when France is defeated?

5. When assigned the part of a Jew, what does Ernie refuse to do?

(see the answer key)

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