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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 do for Ernie?
(a) Cares for him when he is ill.
(b) Becomes his friend in public.
(c) Bargains with bullies to protect him.
(d) Helps him with his homework.

2. How does Ernie prepare himself for the pain of a Just Man's life?
(a) He cuts himself.
(b) He burns himself.
(c) He chokes himself.
(d) He poisons himself.

3. What does Judith unwillingly consent to do for Mordecai?
(a) Move to Zemyock.
(b) Marry him.
(c) Become a baker.
(d) Become a crystal worker.

4. Why does Ernie join the street gang?
(a) To be near Ilse Bruckner.
(b) To have playmates.
(c) To follow his brother Moritz.
(d) He loves fighting.

5. What does Mordecai Levy have to do to keep his potato harvesting job?
(a) Walk many miles to work.
(b) Work harder than others.
(c) Agree to accept half wages.
(d) Fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ernie reflexively defend himself against the bullying of the Pimpfe?

2. What does Benjamin attempt to give the villagers but finds he cannot?

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

4. Why do the German children regret attacking Ernie?

5. What does the village girl point out to Mordecai Levy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What things does Mordecai believe to be incomprehensible?

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

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

5. What qualities of character does Brother Beast possess?

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

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

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

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

10. Why is Jacob not consoled when Ernie promises to "spring" at the Hitler Youth if they bother the little boy?

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