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

2. What were the Levys never able to identify about the Just Man in their family?
(a) The purpose of a Just man.
(b) The signs by which God made his choice.
(c) The identifying features of a Just Man in childhood.
(d) The way to treat a Just Man.

3. What does a Just Man do with the pain of others, according to Mordecai?
(a) Hears it with his ears.
(b) Softens it with his kindness.
(c) Sees it with his eyes.
(d) Takes it into his heart.

4. What advertisement made Benjamin's tailoring shop a success?
(a) He claimed to make his customers "Gentlemen of Berlin."
(b) He claimed to make old clothes like new.
(c) He claimed to know the latest styles.
(d) He claimed to charge the lowest prices.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moritz recommend to avoid persecution?

2. Who is Woden?

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

4. What does Benjamin think will make Jews become Germans?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What qualities of character does Brother Beast possess?

6. What things does Mordecai believe to be incomprehensible?

7. Why does Yankel, the Galician, advise Benjamin to get out of Berlin?

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

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

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

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