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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 Herr Kremer believe is more powerful than politics?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Love.
(d) Reason.
2. When assigned the part of a Jew, what does Ernie refuse to do?
(a) Rob a store.
(b) Order the crucifixion of Christ.
(c) Pick pockets.
(d) Throw stones at Ilse.
3. What advertisement made Benjamin's tailoring shop a success?
(a) He claimed to know the latest styles.
(b) He claimed to make old clothes like new.
(c) He claimed to make his customers "Gentlemen of Berlin."
(d) He claimed to charge the lowest prices.
4. What does Mordecai want to rejuvenate his life after he can't work?
(a) Peace and quiet.
(b) A chance to converse with other elders.
(c) Grandchildren.
(d) The ancient scrolls.
5. Who is Woden?
(a) The Germanic god of war.
(b) The Germanic god of love.
(c) The Germanic god of water.
(d) The Germanic god of fertility.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Ernie prepare himself for the pain of a Just Man's life?
2. What does Herr Kremer believe about children?
3. What does Moritz recommend to avoid persecution?
4. What did Yankel, the young Galician, do to his fellow villagers?
5. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?
Short Essay Questions
1. What rationale does Rabbi Yom Tov Levy offer for the mass murder and suicide he instigates?
2. What "mysterious" change takes place in Benjamin after Mordecai and Judith join him in Stillenstadt?
3. What does Ernie have in common with the German boy he meets when he runs away from home?
4. Why does Yankel, the Galician, advise Benjamin to get out of Berlin?
5. What does Ernie do to ease the emptiness in his heart after the beating?
6. Why is Jacob not consoled when Ernie promises to "spring" at the Hitler Youth if they bother the little boy?
7. What is the role of the Lamed-Vov, the Just Men?
8. What qualities of character does Brother Beast possess?
9. How does Mordecai answer the question of why the Just Man dies in bed, rather than in martyrdom?
10. What things does Mordecai believe to be incomprehensible?
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