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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 had Mordecai told The Association that Ernie would prove himself to be?
(a) An imposter.
(b) A genius.
(c) An unknown Just Man.
(d) A Just Man of the Levy family.

2. What does Ernie smell as he gets out of the boxcar?
(a) Dysentery.
(b) Food cooking.
(c) Burning rubber.
(d) Organic matter burning.

3. What did Ernie review in the infirmary as he recovered from his torture?
(a) Everything that had happened to Just Men.
(b) Every form of mental and physical distress.
(c) Everything that had happened to the Levy family.
(d) Everything that had happened to him.

4. Why were the passengers in the freight car hoping for rain?
(a) They wanted to fill their canteens.
(b) They were overheated.
(c) They hoped it would stop the car's progress.
(d) They had no water.

5. What does Ernie do to get the attention of the military in Drancy?
(a) Faints in the street.
(b) Tears off his gold star.
(c) Attacks an officer.
(d) Demands admission to the camp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last thing Ernie promises the children?

2. In his isolation from his family and companions, what does Ernie decide to become?

3. What does Ernie agree to do with The Association?

4. What do the Jews continue to do in 1943 despite ever-increasing danger?

5. While the Jewish children in Germany are being taught self-destruction, what are the German children taught?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. To what does Ernie attribute Golda's modest wishes?

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

6. Why does Ernie decide he does not want to join the movements that are fighting back against the Nazis?

7. What surprising request does Ernie make of the gendarmes at Drancy?

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

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

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

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