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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Stillenstadt, Part 5 | Chapter 3, Stillenstadt, Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Levys never able to identify about the Just Man in their family?
(a) The signs by which God made his choice.
(b) The purpose of a Just man.
(c) The identifying features of a Just Man in childhood.
(d) The way to treat a Just Man.

2. What is each generation's joking response to "Let us speak of something gay"?
(a) How is the Inquisition going?
(b) What do you hear about the plague?
(c) What's new with the Jews?
(d) What's new about the war?

3. What does Yankel, the young Galician, tell Benjamin happens to his tongue?
(a) It tells only lies.
(b) It becomes confused and stumbles.
(c) It cuts someone each time it speaks.
(d) It speaks velvet words.

4. Why does Benjamin decide not to tell his wife that he is a Just Man?
(a) He is sure she wouldn't marry him.
(b) He is afraid that she would leave him.
(c) He knows it would cause her needless worry.
(d) He no longer believes in that legend.

5. What did Jews have to do to save their lives in York in 1185?
(a) Acknowledge the passion of Jesus Christ.
(b) Cut their hair.
(c) Evacuate the synagogue.
(d) Learn to speak English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judith do when a soldier attacks Mordecai?

2. How does Chaim Levy attract the children of the village where he lives?

3. When Benjamin's hand bleeds, what do his fellow workers think about their cruelty?

4. What does Benjamin call his wife?

5. What does the legend say would happen to the world if one of the Just Men were lacking?

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