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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mordecai Levy have to do to keep his potato harvesting job?
(a) Agree to accept half wages.
(b) Work harder than others.
(c) Walk many miles to work.
(d) Fight.

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

4. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?
(a) Cossacks.
(b) Germans.
(c) Ukrainians.
(d) Italians.

5. What does Jacob do to avoid being recognized as a Jew on the way to the synagogue?
(a) He wears casual clothes.
(b) He stops talking.
(c) He takes off his cap.
(d) He takes off his cloak.

6. Who defends Ernie against the accusations of the grocer's wife?
(a) Judith.
(b) Mordecai.
(c) Fraulein Blumenthal.
(d) Benjamin.

7. What is "Berlin Madness"?
(a) Rabies.
(b) Forgetting one's homeland.
(c) Public renouncing of one's religion.
(d) Using sharp words to endure distress.

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

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

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

11. How did Rabbi Yom Tov Levy get his people out of the besieged watchtower of York?
(a) He offered to take their place at the stake.
(b) He killed them.
(c) He disguised them.
(d) He dug a tunnel.

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

13. How does little Ernie save Frau Tuszynski from being tormented by the Nazis?
(a) When he steps forward to protect her, they are ashamed.
(b) When he steps forward to protect her, they attack him instead.
(c) When he steps forward to protect her, they are distracted.
(d) When he steps forward to protect her, they laugh.

14. What does the ancient text say is the role of Israel in the world?
(a) To atone for the wrongs of mankind.
(b) To create the sufferings of mankind.
(c) To fight for justice.
(d) To take upon itself the sufferings of mankind.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Herr Geek force the Jewish children to do?

3. Why does Ernie remain calm through the Pimpfe's cruel treatment of him?

4. When Benjamin's hand bleeds, what do his fellow workers think about their cruelty?

5. What did the Jewish elders find worst about World War I?

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