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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Late September 1943.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Angelo Soncini's baby sister have an accident with that caused her to die?
(a) A water well
(b) A coal stove
(c) A German
(d) A hot pan

2. What does Schramm fall to the ground with after his confession?
(a) Headache
(b) A Bible
(c) Hemorrhage
(d) Cancer

3. Who will not leave Albert Blum behind when he becomes ill?
(a) Frieda Brossler
(b) Tomitz
(c) Loeb
(d) Santino

4. How did the Germans trick the Blums in Belgium?
(a) By telling them they were to receive money
(b) By surrendering, at first
(c) By coming in tanks
(d) By bombing the country

5. What does the Soncini family return to after Iacopo is released from jail?
(a) Dead children
(b) Messy house
(c) A note from the Germans
(d) Blood on the floor of their home

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mirella try to finagle from the public official, Serafino Brizzolari?

2. What does Renzo think the German army is going to make Italy pay for?

3. Schramm wants to know if _________ go to heaven if they are too young or unable to reach a state of reason.

4. Osvaldo is impatient with the __________ and with the war.

5. Of what military group was Renzo once part of?

(see the answer key)

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