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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ernie believe is written on his face?
(a) The death of the Jewish people.
(b) The future of the Jewish people.
(c) The hope of the Jewish people.
(d) The evacuation of the Jewish people.

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

3. What is Vernichtungswissenschaft?
(a) The science of biology.
(b) The science of torture.
(c) The science of cleansing.
(d) The science of massacre.

4. What unusual request does Ernie make of the gendarmes in Drancy?
(a) Identification of the concentration camp's inhabitants.
(b) Exemption from the concentration camp.
(c) Admission to the concentration camp.
(d) A visitor's pass to the concentration camp.

5. How is Golda, the red-haired girl Ernie rescues from the Nazi bullies, deformed?
(a) One arm is longer.
(b) One foot is larger.
(c) One hand is paralyzed.
(d) One leg is shorter.

6. What animal does Ernie ultimately dream he becomes?
(a) An amoeba.
(b) A cockroach.
(c) A rat.
(d) A snail.

7. What did Ernie review in the infirmary as he recovered from his torture?
(a) Everything that had happened to the Levy family.
(b) Everything that had happened to him.
(c) Everything that had happened to Just Men.
(d) Every form of mental and physical distress.

8. What does Ernie smell as he gets out of the boxcar?
(a) Burning rubber.
(b) Food cooking.
(c) Organic matter burning.
(d) Dysentery.

9. What do the SS officers tell the Jewish prisoners that the men will be doing?
(a) Building houses and roads.
(b) Building bridges.
(c) Clearing forests.
(d) Building offices and apartments.

10. What does Ernie dream as he is being repaired in the Jewish hospital?
(a) He is being married.
(b) He has died and gone to heaven.
(c) He is a child at home.
(d) He has returned to Stillenstadt.

11. What is in the bridal chamber when Ernie and Golda first enter in Ernie's dream?
(a) A sewing machine, a bundle, and a cot.
(b) Doves and butterflies.
(c) A canopied bed.
(d) A rooster and a fish.

12. Where did Ernie find work in 1943?
(a) A furrier's.
(b) A tailor's.
(c) A baker's.
(d) A crystal maker's.

13. What does the farmer's wife find out that changes her attitude toward Ernie?
(a) Ernie is not French.
(b) Ernie is an Israelite.
(c) An Israelite is a Jew.
(d) Pierre is coming home.

14. What instrument did Ernie play in the regimental orchestra?
(a) Drums.
(b) Bugle.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Accordion.

15. To the Germans the Levys are Jews, but what are they to the French?
(a) Germans.
(b) Subhuman.
(c) Compatriots.
(d) Illegal immigrants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What actually awaited the Jews at Pichipoi?

2. What lifesaving device was distributed to all workmen except Jews?

3. What happened to Ernie's face as he gained weight?

4. What does Mario eat while he is living as a dog?

5. What work does Ernie find in Paris?

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