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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who are the Pimpfe?
(a) Pioneers in Hitler Youth.
(b) The school elite.
(c) The school chorus.
(d) A street gang.

4. What did Judith call Benjamin's affliction when they arrived at Stillenstadt?
(a) A change of blood.
(b) A contagion from the Germans.
(c) A cleansing force.
(d) A sign from God.

5. What occupation does Mordecai Levy take up after harvesting potatoes?
(a) Cook.
(b) Cobbler.
(c) Peddler.
(d) Farmer.

6. What does the ancient text say is the role of Israel in the world?
(a) To take upon itself the sufferings of mankind.
(b) To atone for the wrongs of mankind.
(c) To fight for justice.
(d) To create the sufferings of mankind.

7. What does Mordecai do in response to Ernie's act of heroism in protecting Frau Tuszynski?
(a) Mordecai tells Ernie that they will leave Stillenstadt.
(b) Mordecai tells Ernie the history of the Just Men.
(c) Mordecai tells Ernie that he is proud of him.
(d) Mordecai tells Ernie that he is ashamed of him.

8. What keeps Ernie from success in committing suicide?
(a) Fear of death.
(b) The sense that he is already nothing.
(c) The absence of pain.
(d) Love of his family.

9. 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 way to treat a Just Man.
(c) The purpose of a Just man.
(d) The identifying features of a Just Man in childhood.

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

11. What does Ernie feel for the first time as he remembers fighting the Pimpfe?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Shame.
(d) Sorrow.

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

13. What does the village girl point out to Mordecai Levy?
(a) The well.
(b) The gate to leave the city.
(c) The synagogue.
(d) The city wall.

14. Whom does Ernie decide he will represent as a Just Man if people reject him?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Flies.
(c) Cats.
(d) Dogs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who overruns and destroys the Levys' village?

2. Why is Chaim's son, the Just Man, called Brother Beast?

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

4. What does Ernie decide to do in response to his public disgrace?

5. What does Yankel, the young Galician, tell Benjamin happens to his tongue?

(see the answer keys)

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