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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the German children hate most about Ernie?
(a) His gentleness.
(b) His stubbornness.
(c) His courage.
(d) His intelligence.

2. What does Benjamin call his wife?
(a) My dove.
(b) Dearly beloved.
(c) Fraulein Blumenthal.
(d) Little darling.

3. What question does Judith raise that Mordecai cannot answer?
(a) Why do Just Men die in their beds?
(b) Why does God require the existence of Just Men?
(c) What sin have they committed?
(d) What do Just Men do for the world?

4. How does Ernie's family learn that the squadron of anti-Semites is coming?
(a) Judith hears them.
(b) Mordecai hears them.
(c) Benjamin hears them.
(d) Frau Blumenthal hears them.

5. What does Benjamin attempt to give the villagers but finds he cannot?
(a) Free mending.
(b) Recipes.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) A joke.

6. What does Ernie do with Ilse that infuriates Hans Schliemann?
(a) He kisses her cheek.
(b) He takes her hand.
(c) He cries with her.
(d) He puts his arm around her.

7. Why does Ernie join the street gang?
(a) To be near Ilse Bruckner.
(b) To follow his brother Moritz.
(c) He loves fighting.
(d) To have playmates.

8. What finally causes Benjamin to drop his suspicion of the villagers?
(a) Soup.
(b) Cheap rent.
(c) Kind words.
(d) Friendship.

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

10. What does Judith do when a soldier attacks Mordecai?
(a) She kills him.
(b) She offers herself in his place.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She faints.

11. How are the letters made familiar to the young child?
(a) Shaping cookies into their shapes.
(b) Soaking them in honey and giving them to him to suck on.
(c) Drawing them on common household objects.
(d) Cutting them out of sandpaper so they can be felt.

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

13. What does Jacob do to avoid being recognized as a Jew on the way to the synagogue?
(a) He wears casual clothes.
(b) He stops talking.
(c) He takes off his cap.
(d) He takes off his cloak.

14. According to Mordecai, why does a Just Man never have to run after suffering?
(a) It will run away faster than he can chase it.
(b) It comes to him without being called.
(c) It is not assigned to Just Men.
(d) It will elude him.

15. What is Mordecai's pet name for Judith?
(a) My angel.
(b) My mare.
(c) My dove.
(d) My pussycat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judith unwillingly consent to do for Mordecai?

2. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?

3. What does Herr Geek force the Jewish children to do?

4. What does Mordecai tell Ernie he will eventually begin to do as a Just Man?

5. According to Mordecai, what does the death of a Just Man change in the order of the world?

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