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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 are Jews called in Herr Kremer's school?
(a) Guests.
(b) Exchange students.
(c) Specimens.
(d) Examples.

2. According to Mordecai, what does the death of a Just Man change in the order of the world?
(a) The understanding of mankind.
(b) The mind of God.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The balance between good and evil.

3. Who delivers Ernie to his family?
(a) The grocer's wife.
(b) The constable.
(c) A Nazi officer.
(d) A peasant.

4. What does Herr Kremer believe is more powerful than politics?
(a) Reason.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Love.
(d) Compassion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Judith rejoice when she becomes pregnant for the fourth time?

2. Why does Mordecai say their hearts are not entirely Jewish?

3. What did Jews have to do to save their lives in York in 1185?

4. What did the Jewish elders find worst about World War I?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Ernie do to ease the emptiness in his heart after the beating?

4. When Hitler becomes Chancellor of the Reich, what decision of her own does Judith regret?

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

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

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

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

9. What rationale does Rabbi Yom Tov Levy offer for the mass murder and suicide he instigates?

10. What causes Ernie to feel hatred for the first time?

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