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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Ernie tell the children they would find happiness?
(a) England.
(b) Poland.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The Kingdom of Israel.

2. How was Golda's leg injured when she was a child?
(a) She was flung overboard in the Danube.
(b) She fell out of a wagon.
(c) She was thrown from a horse.
(d) She was thrown from a mule.

3. Why is it easy to find work in the Rhone Valley in 1942?
(a) Many towns and villages are rebuilding.
(b) The area is industrializing.
(c) It is a year of abundant crops.
(d) There are no men left in the countryside.

4. What do Golda and Ernie decide there is no time left to do?
(a) Invite their friends to their wedding.
(b) Set up a canopy for their wedding.
(c) Tell their families about their wedding.
(d) Find a rabbi to marry them.

5. How did the SS officers calm and reassure the prisoners upon their arrival?
(a) Showed them their sleeping quarters.
(b) Gave them work assignments.
(c) Had a band play music for them.
(d) Gave them soup to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Herschel Grynszpan's action frighten all German Jews?

2. What actually awaited the Jews at Pichipoi?

3. How is Golda, the red-haired girl Ernie rescues from the Nazi bullies, deformed?

4. What penance does Ernie impose upon himself for not loving the farmer's wife who took him in?

5. As they breathed the gas, when did Ernie promise Golda he would see her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ernie decide he does not want to join the movements that are fighting back against the Nazis?

2. What causes Mordecai to take up a weapon against the Nazi perpetrators?

3. What details alert Ernie to the fact that the passengers will never leave this place?

4. Why does Judith tell the government offices from which she secures provisions that they should thank her?

5. What do the old men of The Association of Zemyock say it is useless to do with any Levy?

6. Why did the colored identity cards give the Jews a false sense of security?

7. Why does Madame Trochu, the farmer's wife, distrust Ernie?

8. What changes does Madame Trochu make when she understands that Ernie is a Jew?

9. In Ernie's dream, what mistake does Judith make as she talks about the wedding?

10. Why do the children scream when the boxcar stops?

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