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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) Benjamin hears them.
(b) Judith hears them.
(c) Frau Blumenthal hears them.
(d) Mordecai hears them.

2. What does Benjamin call his wife?
(a) My dove.
(b) Fraulein Blumenthal.
(c) Dearly beloved.
(d) Little darling.

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

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

5. From which group of children is Ernie separated?
(a) Jews.
(b) Aryans and Jews.
(c) Aryans.
(d) Neither.

6. What does Mordecai tell Ernie he will eventually begin to do as a Just Man?
(a) Glow.
(b) Become wise.
(c) Work to save the world.
(d) Redeem his people.

7. How does Benjamin believe his success in business has helped his fellow Jews?
(a) He has taught principles of Judaism while fitting clothes.
(b) He has referred his clients to other Jewish businesses.
(c) He has given an example of good business practice.
(d) His popularity has lowered anti-semitism in general.

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

9. What does Herr Kremer believe is more powerful than politics?
(a) Reason.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Love.

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

11. What does Ilse Bruckner promise Hans Schliemann when they leave Ernie?
(a) To tell his mother.
(b) To make him pay.
(c) To be his steady girlfriend.
(d) To meet him by the school.

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

13. What does Mordecai determine to teach Ernie while Ernie is still young?
(a) Manners.
(b) Scriptures.
(c) Who he is.
(d) Hebrew.

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

15. Why was the Rock of Woden famous?
(a) It was a place for divers.
(b) Lovers had committed suicide there.
(c) It was a remnant of a temple.
(d) It was a sacrificial altar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ernie reflexively defend himself against the bullying of the Pimpfe?

2. What does Ernie feel for the first time as he remembers fighting the Pimpfe?

3. What does Mordecai want to rejuvenate his life after he can't work?

4. Why does Ernie join the street gang?

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

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