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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 musical instrument does Golda play?
(a) The harmonica.
(b) The harp.
(c) The piano.
(d) The violin.

2. Why does Ernie think that he has the soul of a cat?
(a) He feels no affection for humans.
(b) He is a wanderer by nature.
(c) He must be killed nine times before he dies.
(d) He is elusive by nature.

3. What work does Ernie find in Paris?
(a) Bicycle messenger.
(b) Crystal maker.
(c) Apprentice tailor.
(d) Machine operator.

4. In a letter, what does Benjamin Levy tell his soldier son that being a Jew is?
(a) Thrilling.
(b) Impossible.
(c) Scary.
(d) An honor.

5. Whose example does the farmer's wife who took him in encourage Ernie to follow?
(a) The geese.
(b) The horses.
(c) The dogs.
(d) The chickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernie tell Golda Christians have done with the cross of Christ?

2. Ernie tells Golda that Jesus was _____________.

3. What is Vernichtungswissenschaft?

4. Golda, the red-haired girl Ernie rescues, tells him that the Nazis would not have taken her with them because ____________.

5. What did the signs directing the prisoners to the baths say?

Short Essay Questions

1. What details alert Ernie to the fact that the passengers will never leave this place?

2. What were the Jews told to take with them into the "Baths and Inhalations"?

3. Why do the children scream when the boxcar stops?

4. What does the author find "admirable" about German education during the years before the Final Solution of Jewish extermination?

5. Why does Ernie compare himself to a cat?

6. How was it possible that the majority of the condemned Jews realized what was happening to them only once inside the gas chambers?

7. What do the old men of The Association of Zemyock say it is useless to do with any Levy?

8. Where did the Nazis tell the Jews they were going in the boxcars?

9. Why did the colored identity cards give the Jews a false sense of security?

10. In Ernie's dream, what mistake does Judith make as she talks about the wedding?

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