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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 do the German children regret attacking Ernie?
(a) They think he is vengeful.
(b) They think they have killed him.
(c) They think they will be punished.
(d) They think they were wrong.

2. What does Ernie decide that he is after the bullying by the Plimpfe?
(a) The Just Man of the Flies.
(b) A Just Man.
(c) A savior to his family.
(d) Nothing.

3. What finally causes Benjamin to drop his suspicion of the villagers?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Kind words.
(c) Cheap rent.
(d) Soup.

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

5. What does Benjamin call his wife?
(a) Fraulein Blumenthal.
(b) Dearly beloved.
(c) My dove.
(d) Little darling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herr Geek believe is his job at Ernie's school?

2. How does Chaim Levy attract the children of the village where he lives?

3. Why is Chaim's son, the Just Man, called Brother Beast?

4. When assigned the part of a Jew, what does Ernie refuse to do?

5. What did Yankel, the young Galician, do to his fellow villagers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Judith recognize Mordecai as a Just Man?

5. What does Herr Kremer mean when he says the child is descended from the man?

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

7. What qualities of character does Brother Beast possess?

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

9. Why did others regard Mordecai as a fallen Levy?

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

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