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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Ernie unable to determine about the children who crowd around him in the boxcar?
(a) If any of them are still awake.
(b) If any of them understand what he is saying.
(c) If any of them hear him speaking.
(d) If any of them are still alive.

3. What did the signs directing the prisoners to the baths say?
(a) "To the baths and dormitories."
(b) "To the baths and dining hall."
(c) "To the baths and cafeteria."
(d) "To the baths and inhalations."

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

5. How does Ernie respond when reprimanded by the doctor for telling the children their experience was just a dream?
(a) "These children deserve some peace."
(b) "This is actually just a dream."
(c) "There is no room for truth here."
(d) "My words will come to pass."

6. What does the aide request of the SS officer?
(a) Permission to torture Ernie.
(b) Permission to laugh.
(c) Permission to cry.
(d) Permission to leave the room during the interrogation.

7. As they breathed the gas, when did Ernie promise Golda he would see her?
(a) Before the end of the world.
(b) Never.
(c) Before the night was over.
(d) In a little while.

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

9. Golda, the red-haired girl Ernie rescues, tells him that the Nazis would not have taken her with them because ____________.
(a) She is stronger than they were.
(b) Her older brother was coming to protect her.
(c) She isn't pretty enough.
(d) They were about to leave.

10. Why does Ernie think that he has the soul of a cat?
(a) He is a wanderer by nature.
(b) He is elusive by nature.
(c) He feels no affection for humans.
(d) He must be killed nine times before he dies.

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

12. What is Ernie's goal as a he roams the Rhone Valley?
(a) To cultivate his highest instincts.
(b) To become a civilized man.
(c) To behave as a Just Man.
(d) To cultivate his lowest instincts.

13. Why does Herschel Grynszpan's action frighten all German Jews?
(a) He would be executed.
(b) They would be deported.
(c) Police would search everywhere for him.
(d) There would be Nazi retribution.

14. What word do the members of The Association of Old Zenyock have trouble pronouncing?
(a) Bonjour.
(b) Mademoiselle.
(c) Monsieur.
(d) Voila.

15. What actually awaited the Jews at Pichipoi?
(a) They would be shipped to Israel.
(b) They would be allowed a fresh start.
(c) They would be killed.
(d) They would be granted homesteads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ernie thinks falling in love can lead to ________________.

2. What does Ernie do to get the attention of the military in Drancy?

3. Why does Judith tell their donors that they should thank her?

4. What does the SS aide say that Ernie's case reminds him of?

5. What were the prisoners instructed to take with them to the baths?

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