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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer 1944.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Schramm now understands how people cling to one small ____________ of life as long as they can.
(a) taste
(b) moment
(c) thread
(d) piece

2. What is Schramm dying from, though Renzo decides he can help him to life long enough to return to see his family?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Typhus
(c) Plague
(d) Cancer

3. What will happen to any Jews who do not surrender by the indicated date of September 28, 1943?
(a) Nothing
(b) They will be tortured
(c) They will be shot on sight
(d) They will go to a work camp

4. Schramm recalls how the _________ of the world romanticized illness and fainting.
(a) doctors
(b) artists
(c) writers
(d) actors

5. Schramm confesses to being part of the _________ program as part of Hitler's plan.
(a) strategy
(b) governing
(c) euthanasia
(d) military

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Santino Cicala helping Battista Goletta build?

2. Whose acceptance of everyone regardless of race does Santino admire?

3. Duno becomes angry that his father will not fight the ____________.

4. Where does Schramm finally lie down in order to begin to recuperate from his illness?

5. What does Iacopo admit to Mirella when they return home after Iacopo is released from jail?

(see the answer key)

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