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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. Why does Judith tell their donors that they should thank her?
(a) God will repay them tenfold.
(b) God will repay them a hundredfold.
(c) God will repay them fifty times.
(d) God will repay them twice over.

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

3. What does Ernie feel after rescuing Golda, the red-haired girl?
(a) Pity that turned to sorrow.
(b) Pity that turned to happiness.
(c) Sorrow that turned to Pity.
(d) Sorry that turned to happiness.

4. What were suicidal Jews at Buchenwald requested to do?
(a) Turn in their personal possessions.
(b) Put identification in their mouths.
(c) Leave the room.
(d) Wait to be killed.

5. What do the Jews of Proskurov do to save themselves from persecution?
(a) Dig tunnels.
(b) Store food.
(c) Arm themselves.
(d) Cry out for seven nights.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What had Mordecai told The Association that Ernie would prove himself to be?

4. How long does Ernie stay in the hospital?

5. What does Ernie's moustache cause him to resemble?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mordecai say it would be useless to leave Germany?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did the colored identity cards give the Jews a false sense of security?

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

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