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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through February 1945.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Pierino's new job to do at this point of the story?
(a) Soldier
(b) Artist
(c) Milk man
(d) Postman

2. What kinds of laws does Lidia find annoying?
(a) Race laws
(b) War crime laws
(c) Religion laws
(d) All laws

3. Why does Mirella offer to keep liquor at home for Renzo, which ends up making Renzo angry at her?
(a) To keep him closeby
(b) To avoid breaking curfew
(c) To help him dull his pain
(d) She doesn't offer to keep it

4. What does Schramm weep at when he is recuperating from his illness?
(a) His pain
(b) His cowardice
(c) The mother's lullabies
(d) His past sins

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Germans trick the Blums in Belgium?

2. What was NOT one of the fears of Adolf as a child growing up in the fearful environment of his mother?

3. Who is the one-armed son who is not taken off to war to fight with the Army?

4. Who rushes in to tell Santino about German soldiers raping a young girl?

5. Who is now caring for Schramm, nursing him back to health?

(see the answer key)

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