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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ernie tell Golda Christians have done with the cross of Christ?
(a) Turned it into a sword.
(b) Made it a symbol of hatred.
(c) Made it a symbol of peace.
(d) Made it something to hope for.

2. How does Benjamin view Jewish suffering?
(a) As the triumph of the wicked.
(b) As senseless torment.
(c) As mankind's sacrificial offering to God.
(d) As retribution for sin.

3. Whose example does the farmer's wife who took him in encourage Ernie to follow?
(a) The chickens.
(b) The dogs.
(c) The horses.
(d) The geese.

4. What does Ernie agree to do with The Association?
(a) Publicize their meetings.
(b) Live with them.
(c) Go to their dances.
(d) Sign up to join.

5. What were suicidal Jews at Buchenwald requested to do?
(a) Put identification in their mouths.
(b) Turn in their personal possessions.
(c) Wait to be killed.
(d) Leave the room.

6. What are Ernie's first words as he comes to life in the hospital?
(a) "The world is going to rack and ruin."
(b) "Everything will be all right."
(c) "Things are not what they seem."
(d) "Be careful. They're deceiving you."

7. What does Ernie realizes he lacks when he enters the street in his dream?
(a) Golda.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Directions.
(d) Skin.

8. What happens to hundreds of German Jewish boys in 1934?
(a) They form gangs.
(b) They committ suicide.
(c) They convert to Christianity.
(d) They flee the country.

9. How does the Levy family support itself in Paris at first?
(a) On Mordecai's crystal work.
(b) On state subsidies.
(c) On Benjamin's tailoring.
(d) On their savings.

10. What does Herschel Grynszpan do that affects all Jews in Germany?
(a) Shoots his mother and his father.
(b) Shoots a Nazi officer.
(c) Attempts to shoot the Fuehrer.
(d) Shoots the secretary of the German embassy in Paris.

11. What had Mordecai told The Association that Ernie would prove himself to be?
(a) A genius.
(b) A Just Man of the Levy family.
(c) An imposter.
(d) An unknown Just Man.

12. What was Ernie's assignment in the French army?
(a) Infantryman.
(b) Calvary man.
(c) Stretcher bearer.
(d) Cook.

13. What quotation from La Pasionara is repeated in Ernie's regiment when France is defeated?
(a) "It is better to die on our feet than live on our knees."
(b) "He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day."
(c) "It is better to live than to die."
(d) "It is better to live on our feet than die on our knees."

14. What does Ernie call the members of The Association that pleases them?
(a) Patriarchs.
(b) Just Men.
(c) Israelites.
(d) Jews.

15. In his wedding dream, what shows up at the windows?
(a) Guests.
(b) Fists.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. To the Germans the Levys are Jews, but what are they to the French?

2. In a letter, what does Benjamin Levy tell his soldier son that being a Jew is?

3. What is the last thing Ernie promises the children?

4. What penance does Ernie impose upon himself for not loving the farmer's wife who took him in?

5. What did many Jews believe would happen to them at Pichipoi?

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