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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Dog, Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Benjamin Levy's occupation?
(a) A baker.
(b) A tailor.
(c) A peddler.
(d) A crystal maker.

2. What does Ilse Bruckner promise Hans Schliemann when they leave Ernie?
(a) To tell his mother.
(b) To meet him by the school.
(c) To be his steady girlfriend.
(d) To make him pay.

3. What does Herr Kremer believe is more powerful than politics?
(a) Love.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Reason.

4. What quotation from La Pasionara is repeated in Ernie's regiment when France is defeated?
(a) "It is better to live on our feet than die on our knees."
(b) "It is better to live than to die."
(c) "It is better to die on our feet than live on our knees."
(d) "He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day."

5. Why does Ernie remain calm through the Pimpfe's cruel treatment of him?
(a) He wants to impress Ilse.
(b) He accepts it as his lot in life.
(c) The events do not seem real to him.
(d) He believes it is a Just Man's duty to endure pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Benjamin believe his success in business has helped his fellow Jews?

2. What were suicidal Jews at Buchenwald requested to do?

3. Why does Benjamin decide not to tell his wife that he is a Just Man?

4. What does Ernie do with Ilse that infuriates Hans Schliemann?

5. What do the Jews of Proskurov do to save themselves from persecution?

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