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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 Ilse Bruckner promise Hans Schliemann when they leave Ernie?
(a) To be his steady girlfriend.
(b) To tell his mother.
(c) To make him pay.
(d) To meet him by the school.

2. What does Moritz love best as a child?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Studying.
(d) Running.

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

4. How does little Ernie save Frau Tuszynski from being tormented by the Nazis?
(a) When he steps forward to protect her, they are distracted.
(b) When he steps forward to protect her, they are ashamed.
(c) When he steps forward to protect her, they attack him instead.
(d) When he steps forward to protect her, they laugh.

5. What does Ernie win for good performance in school?
(a) Books.
(b) Medals.
(c) Ribbons.
(d) Certificates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernie do with Ilse that infuriates Hans Schliemann?

2. What mysterious affliction hit Benjamin when Judith and Mordecai came to Stillenstadt?

3. What does Ernie feel for the first time as he remembers fighting the Pimpfe?

4. According to Mordecai, why does a Just Man never have to run after suffering?

5. What does Mordecai believe is the significance of being Jewish?

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 think as he is surrounded by the Pimpfe bullies?

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

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

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

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

7. What qualities of character does Brother Beast possess?

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

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

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

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