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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mordecai Levy advise the village girl he meets to be kind to him?
(a) He might be a messenger from the devil.
(b) He might be a spy from her father.
(c) He might be the love of her life.
(d) He might be a messenger from God.

2. What does Benjamin think will make Jews become Germans?
(a) Fear.
(b) Duplicity.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Torture.

3. What did Judith call Benjamin's affliction when they arrived at Stillenstadt?
(a) A cleansing force.
(b) A sign from God.
(c) A contagion from the Germans.
(d) A change of blood.

4. What does Ernie decide to do in response to his public disgrace?
(a) Stay in his room.
(b) Apologize.
(c) Hide.
(d) Run away.

5. How does the grocer's daughter react when Ernie explains why he has come to the grocery store?
(a) She laughs.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She becomes his friend.
(d) She screams.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which group of children is Ernie separated?

2. What does the legend say would happen to the world if one of the Just Men were lacking?

3. What is Ernie first in at his school?

4. What is Benjamin Levy's occupation?

5. How does Benjamin defend the apostate who returns to Judaism?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Judith object to Mordecai telling stories to Ernie?

2. What does Benjamin imagine will happen to the Jews as they become acquainted with Germans?

3. What does Ernie's act of stepping forward to protest the treatment of Frau Tuszynski cause Mordecai to do?

4. How does Mordecai answer the question of why the Just Man dies in bed, rather than in martyrdom?

5. Why doesn't Ernie sing with his class when Herr Geek orders him to do so?

6. Why do Mordecai and Judith decide that Benjamin is like a mosquito?

7. What drama takes place between Judith and Fraulein Blumenthal as children are born?

8. Why does Herr Geek see the Jews as a threat to Germany?

9. Why does Yankel, the Galician, advise Benjamin to get out of Berlin?

10. What does Ernie have in common with the German boy he meets when he runs away from home?

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