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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Benjamin defend the apostate who returns to Judaism?
(a) He has chosen correctly; let us celebrate with him.
(b) He will suffer as God wills.
(c) He has suffered enough during his time as a Christian.
(d) He is voluntarily suffering; let us not add to his burden.

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

3. What does the village girl point out to Mordecai Levy?
(a) The gate to leave the city.
(b) The well.
(c) The city wall.
(d) The synagogue.

4. How are the letters made familiar to the young child?
(a) Drawing them on common household objects.
(b) Shaping cookies into their shapes.
(c) Cutting them out of sandpaper so they can be felt.
(d) Soaking them in honey and giving them to him to suck on.

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

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

7. Why is Chaim's son, the Just Man, called Brother Beast?
(a) He is illiterate, and he's cruel to people.
(b) He is illiterate and cannot speak.
(c) He is illiterate and loves plants and animals more than people.
(d) He is illiterate, and he loves no one.

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

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

10. Why doesn't Judith rejoice when she becomes pregnant for the fourth time?
(a) Her first three babies died in infancy.
(b) She can't feed more children.
(c) She senses something is wrong with the fetus.
(d) She is afraid Mordecai will leave her.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is each generation's joking response to "Let us speak of something gay"?

2. What does the ancient text say is the role of Israel in the world?

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

4. Why do the German children regret attacking Ernie?

5. What does Benjamin think will make Jews become Germans?

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