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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 actually awaited the Jews at Pichipoi?
(a) They would be killed.
(b) They would be shipped to Israel.
(c) They would be allowed a fresh start.
(d) They would be granted homesteads.

2. What happens to Ernie's body when he gets out of the boxcar?
(a) He sweats blood.
(b) He weeps blood.
(c) His ears bleed.
(d) His wounds bleed.

3. What does Ernie believe is the most painful foretaste of death?
(a) Torture.
(b) Separation from a loved one.
(c) Being misunderstood.
(d) Being disrespected.

4. What does the farmer's wife find out that changes her attitude toward Ernie?
(a) Pierre is coming home.
(b) Ernie is not French.
(c) An Israelite is a Jew.
(d) Ernie is an Israelite.

5. What does Ernie realizes he lacks when he enters the street in his dream?
(a) Directions.
(b) Skin.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Golda.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the hospital, what does Ernie pray to God to do?

2. What lifesaving device was distributed to all workmen except Jews?

3. When France surrenders, what happens to Ernie's family interred at Gurs?

4. In a letter, what does Benjamin Levy tell his soldier son that being a Jew is?

5. What was Ernie's assignment in the French army?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ernie unable to fight to defend Jacob, even though he trains himself to do so?

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

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

4. What part does the music of the band play in the successful extermination of the Jews?

5. Why does Benjamin Levy say that to be a Jew is impossible?

6. Why does Madame Trochu, the farmer's wife, distrust Ernie?

7. What change does touching Melanie make in Ernie?

8. Why does Ernie compare himself to a cat?

9. What causes Mordecai to take up a weapon against the Nazi perpetrators?

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

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