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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. What are Ernie's first words as he comes to life in the hospital?
(a) "Things are not what they seem."
(b) "Everything will be all right."
(c) "Be careful. They're deceiving you."
(d) "The world is going to rack and ruin."

2. Where did Ernie find work in 1943?
(a) A furrier's.
(b) A tailor's.
(c) A crystal maker's.
(d) A baker's.

3. What is Vernichtungswissenschaft?
(a) The science of biology.
(b) The science of massacre.
(c) The science of cleansing.
(d) The science of torture.

4. What did Ernie review in the infirmary as he recovered from his torture?
(a) Everything that had happened to the Levy family.
(b) Every form of mental and physical distress.
(c) Everything that had happened to Just Men.
(d) Everything that had happened to him.

5. What had Mordecai told The Association that Ernie would prove himself to be?
(a) A Just Man of the Levy family.
(b) An imposter.
(c) A genius.
(d) An unknown Just Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual request does Ernie make of the gendarmes in Drancy?

2. What instrument did Ernie play in the regimental orchestra?

3. What does Ernie have to sew to stay with The Association?

4. To the Germans the Levys are Jews, but what are they to the French?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ernie describe Jesus?

2. Why does the French army captain think that Ernie should not be allowed to continue as a soldier?

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

4. What happens to Ernie in the infirmary where he is put to recover from his torture session?

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

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

7. To what does Ernie attribute Golda's modest wishes?

8. How was it possible that the majority of the condemned Jews realized what was happening to them only once inside the gas chambers?

9. What change does touching Melanie make in Ernie?

10. What causes the Levy family the first tinge of fear that life in France will be the equivalent of their lives in Germany?

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