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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 Ernie pray will be taken from his heart on his dream wedding day?
(a) All sorrow.
(b) All Christian influence.
(c) All desire for revenge.
(d) All hatred.

2. How is Golda, the red-haired girl Ernie rescues from the Nazi bullies, deformed?
(a) One foot is larger.
(b) One hand is paralyzed.
(c) One arm is longer.
(d) One leg is shorter.

3. What unusual request does Ernie make of the gendarmes in Drancy?
(a) Identification of the concentration camp's inhabitants.
(b) Exemption from the concentration camp.
(c) Admission to the concentration camp.
(d) A visitor's pass to the concentration camp.

4. Which of the travelers in the freight car with Ernie and Golda found "true consolation"?
(a) Those who overcame their fear.
(b) Those who died.
(c) Those who prayed.
(d) Those who helped others.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ernie have to sew to stay with The Association?

2. Why does Judith tell their donors that they should thank her?

3. How did the SS officers calm and reassure the prisoners upon their arrival?

4. What were the prisoners instructed to take with them to the baths?

5. How does Benjamin view Jewish suffering?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What change does touching Melanie make in Ernie?

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

4. How does Ernie describe Jesus?

5. Why does the French army captain think that Ernie should not be allowed to continue as a soldier?

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

7. Why does Ernie compare himself to a cat?

8. What does Ernie say to comfort the children in the boxcar?

9. What does Ernie do to turn himself into a dog?

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

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