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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Herr Kremer believe about children?
(a) They are blank pages to be written upon.
(b) They are prone to evil.
(c) They are superior to adults.
(d) They are clay to be molded.

2. What keeps Ernie from success in committing suicide?
(a) Love of his family.
(b) Fear of death.
(c) The absence of pain.
(d) The sense that he is already nothing.

3. What occupation does Mordecai Levy take up after harvesting potatoes?
(a) Cobbler.
(b) Cook.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Peddler.

4. What did Yankel, the young Galician, do when he saw the parade of fascists?
(a) He ran to join them.
(b) He threw stones at them.
(c) He ran away from them and hid.
(d) He fainted from fear.

5. What does Herr Geek force the Jewish children to do?
(a) Kneel.
(b) Sing.
(c) Pledge allegiance.
(d) Salute Hitler.

6. What does Judith unwillingly consent to do for Mordecai?
(a) Become a crystal worker.
(b) Become a baker.
(c) Marry him.
(d) Move to Zemyock.

7. What does Ernie decide to do in response to his public disgrace?
(a) Stay in his room.
(b) Hide.
(c) Apologize.
(d) Run away.

8. What had a professor from Berlin found under the moss of the rock?
(a) An autograph of an ancient saint.
(b) A pictograph of horses.
(c) A jewel.
(d) A swastika.

9. What does Benjamin send Ernie out of the tailor shop to find?
(a) A shoehorn.
(b) A needle.
(c) A soda.
(d) A pineapple.

10. What is Ernie first in at his school?
(a) German.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Music.
(d) Science.

11. What does Moritz recommend to avoid persecution?
(a) Dress like the rest of the population.
(b) Cut off earlocks.
(c) Learn to speak better German.
(d) Worship at home.

12. When assigned the part of a Jew, what does Ernie refuse to do?
(a) Rob a store.
(b) Pick pockets.
(c) Throw stones at Ilse.
(d) Order the crucifixion of Christ.

13. What mysterious affliction hit Benjamin when Judith and Mordecai came to Stillenstadt?
(a) A mental confusion.
(b) A headache.
(c) A fever.
(d) A silence.

14. 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 were too frail.
(d) They could not observe the Sabbath.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the grocer's daughter react when Ernie explains why he has come to the grocery store?

2. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?

3. Why is the village upset when Chaim Levy has more than one son?

4. Who stays behind when the Pimpfe leave Ernie?

5. What does Herr Kremer believe is more powerful than politics?

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