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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did the democracies of the world respond to German anti-semitism?
2. What does Ernie believe is the most painful foretaste of death?
3. What do the SS officers tell the Jewish prisoners that the men will be doing?
4. What did the SS man instruct the prisoners that the gas in the bathhouse would do?
5. What do the Jews of Proskurov do to save themselves from persecution?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Ernie do to turn himself into a dog?
2. What do the old men of The Association of Zemyock say it is useless to do with any Levy?
3. What happens to Ernie in the infirmary where he is put to recover from his torture session?
4. Why do the SS men torture Ernie for his request to enter the camp at Drancy?
5. Why does Ernie decide he does not want to join the movements that are fighting back against the Nazis?
6. What does the author find "admirable" about German education during the years before the Final Solution of Jewish extermination?
7. Why does Judith tell the government offices from which she secures provisions that they should thank her?
8. How was it possible that the majority of the condemned Jews realized what was happening to them only once inside the gas chambers?
9. Why is Ernie unable to fight to defend Jacob, even though he trains himself to do so?
10. Why does the French army captain think that Ernie should not be allowed to continue as a soldier?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Everyone in Ernie's family has a different view of God and what the deity will or will not do for humans. In your essay, discuss the contrasts among the various understandings of God.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring the character and personality of Ernie. What motivates him as a child? As an adult? What does he want to do? Does he believe himself to be a Just Man? The author talks of the first death of Ernie. Are there more than one? More than two? Use specific examples from the story.
Essay Topic 3
A great deal of this story revolves around Ernie's development as a child. In your essay, tell which of Ernie's recorded childhood events changed the man he was to become, and why you think so.
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