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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) A genius.
(b) An unknown Just Man.
(c) An imposter.
(d) A Just Man of the Levy family.

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

3. How was Golda's leg injured when she was a child?
(a) She was thrown from a mule.
(b) She was flung overboard in the Danube.
(c) She was thrown from a horse.
(d) She fell out of a wagon.

4. Ernie thinks falling in love can lead to ________________.
(a) Overindulgence and misery.
(b) Siestas and delirium.
(c) Vulnerability and heartbreak.
(d) Fasting, temperance, and writing poetry.

5. What penance does Ernie impose upon himself for not loving the farmer's wife who took him in?
(a) Refusing her good cooking.
(b) Displaying great passion.
(c) Doing all the farm work.
(d) Being kind.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does Ernie decide he must leave the city of Marseilles?

4. What are Ernie's first words as he comes to life in the hospital?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes does Madame Trochu make when she understands that Ernie is a Jew?

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

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

4. What happens to Ernie in the infirmary where he is put to recover from his torture session?

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

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

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

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

9. Why are the old men of The Association of Zemyock surprised that Ernie has returned to them?

10. Why do the SS men torture Ernie for his request to enter the camp at Drancy?

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