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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 lifesaving device was distributed to all workmen except Jews?
(a) Bandages.
(b) Gas masks.
(c) Ear plugs.
(d) Antibiotics.

2. How does the Levy family support itself in Paris at first?
(a) On their savings.
(b) On Benjamin's tailoring.
(c) On Mordecai's crystal work.
(d) On state subsidies.

3. What did the signs directing the prisoners to the baths say?
(a) "To the baths and dormitories."
(b) "To the baths and cafeteria."
(c) "To the baths and inhalations."
(d) "To the baths and dining hall."

4. What did the SS man instruct the prisoners that the gas in the bathhouse would do?
(a) Make breathing easier.
(b) Prevent pain.
(c) Free them from this world.
(d) Disinfect and strengthen the lungs.

5. When France surrenders, what happens to Ernie's family interred at Gurs?
(a) They are set free.
(b) They are delivered to Nazi extermination camps.
(c) They are deported.
(d) They are shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Golda and Ernie decide there is no time left to do?

2. Ernie thinks falling in love can lead to ________________.

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

4. What does Ernie believe is the most painful foretaste of death?

5. What does the aide request of the SS officer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes the Levy family the first tinge of fear that life in France will be the equivalent of their lives in Germany?

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 surprising request does Ernie make of the gendarmes at Drancy?

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Ernie compare himself to a cat?

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

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