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

2. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?
(a) Germans.
(b) Cossacks.
(c) Italians.
(d) Ukrainians.

3. What does the village girl point out to Mordecai Levy?
(a) The well.
(b) The city wall.
(c) The gate to leave the city.
(d) The synagogue.

4. What does Jacob do to avoid being recognized as a Jew on the way to the synagogue?
(a) He stops talking.
(b) He takes off his cloak.
(c) He wears casual clothes.
(d) He takes off his cap.

5. How does Benjamin defend the apostate who returns to Judaism?
(a) He is voluntarily suffering; let us not add to his burden.
(b) He has chosen correctly; let us celebrate with him.
(c) He has suffered enough during his time as a Christian.
(d) He will suffer as God wills.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the family avoid attack on the way to the synagogue?

2. Why does Benjamin decide not to tell his wife that he is a Just Man?

3. Why is the village upset when Chaim Levy has more than one son?

4. Who defends Ernie against the accusations of the grocer's wife?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Benjamin successfully market himself as a tailor?

2. What does Ernie think when he feels no pain from the bumps and gashes he has suffered?

3. What qualities of character does Brother Beast possess?

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

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

6. How is Benjamin received by the Jews in Stillenstadt?

7. Why does Judith blame herself for the death of three of her sons?

8. What is the role of the Lamed-Vov, the Just Men?

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

10. How does the child Ernie come to feel that he is in charge of those around him?

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