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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through October.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After receiving the supposed good-luck cloth, Lewis hears that Americans from which division have orders to beat ANY Germans to death, even those who surrender?
(a) 8th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 24th.
(d) 45th.

2. While discussing the contraband confiscated by the Marshal at the checkpoint three miles outside town, Lewis says that a drum of olive oil is worth how much on the black market?
(a) 3,000 lire.
(b) 8,000 lire.
(c) 30, 000 lire.
(d) 50,000 lire.

3. Early in the book, on which of the following dates does Lewis state that the war arrives?
(a) September 14, 1944.
(b) September 12, 1943.
(c) September 8, 1943.
(d) September 19, 1944.

4. In the October 9, 1943 entry Lewis says that children in Naples are prying limpets off rocks for food. How much can the children collect in exchange for a pint of limpets?
(a) 25 lire.
(b) 5 lire.
(c) 19 lire.
(d) 2 lire.

5. After his return to Naples Lewis tells about an assault on local girls found in the company of Allied soldiers; he says that the assault took place from the gardens of which location?
(a) Villa Roma.
(b) Villa Nazionale.
(c) Villa Navona.
(d) Villa Republica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the plaza where the Palace is located, in which Lewis' unit is installed when he reunites with them in Naples?

2. In his discussion of the Palace in Naples, how many bathrooms does Lewis say it has?

3. When the checkpoint three miles out of town is passed by a lorry that crashes through, Lewis says that the man in charge of the Thompson sub-machine gun is which of these?

4. When Lewis first meets the man who will become his best informant, Vincente Lattarullo, he reports that the man is a member of which of the following professions?

5. After Lewis gives a hungry man some K rations he receives a strip of cloth that the giver insists will render him bulletproof; from what city did this cloth originate?

(see the answer key)

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