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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Cutting them out of sandpaper so they can be felt.
(d) Shaping cookies into their shapes.

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

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

5. What were the Levys never able to identify about the Just Man in their family?
(a) The way to treat a Just Man.
(b) The signs by which God made his choice.
(c) The identifying features of a Just Man in childhood.
(d) The purpose of a Just man.

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

7. How does the Just Man designate Benjamin as his heir?
(a) The Just Man kisses his hand.
(b) The Just Man anoints his head.
(c) The Just Man prays for him.
(d) The Just Man kneels before him.

8. Who delivers Ernie to his family?
(a) A Nazi officer.
(b) The constable.
(c) The grocer's wife.
(d) A peasant.

9. Who is Woden?
(a) The Germanic god of war.
(b) The Germanic god of love.
(c) The Germanic god of fertility.
(d) The Germanic god of water.

10. What is Mordecai's pet name for Judith?
(a) My mare.
(b) My angel.
(c) My pussycat.
(d) My dove.

11. What does Ernie decide that he is after the bullying by the Plimpfe?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A Just Man.
(c) The Just Man of the Flies.
(d) A savior to his family.

12. How does Ernie reflexively defend himself against the bullying of the Pimpfe?
(a) He stabs them.
(b) He bites them.
(c) He kicks them.
(d) He tricks them.

13. How does the grocer's daughter react when Ernie explains why he has come to the grocery store?
(a) She becomes his friend.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She screams.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ilse Bruckner promise Hans Schliemann when they leave Ernie?

2. What does Jacob do to avoid being recognized as a Jew on the way to the synagogue?

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

4. According to Mordecai, what does the death of a Just Man change in the order of the world?

5. What does Benjamin attempt to give the villagers but finds he cannot?

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