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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Angelo put in order to keep him safe from the Germans, though Angelo just thinks he is being punished for being mean to his sister?
(a) Catholic boarding school
(b) The attic
(c) A new family's home
(d) A stone hut

3. Who is the one-armed son who is not taken off to war to fight with the Army?
(a) Signor
(b) Santino
(c) Pierino
(d) Santiago

4. Who has a wooden leg and is known as the Red Priest?
(a) Don Leto
(b) Tomitz
(c) Renzo
(d) Pierino

5. Who tells Mirella and Angelo that Iacopo has been arrested?
(a) Loeb
(b) Albert
(c) Renzo
(d) Tomitz

6. What did Klara Hitler finally die from as she seemingly could not be saved by a Jewish doctor?
(a) Plague
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Breast cancer
(d) Typhus

7. What confirmed for Schramm that Irmgard had ruined his family?
(a) Mother's suicide
(b) His mother said so
(c) The Nazi beliefs
(d) His own propensity for evil

8. Where have Claudette and Albert been hiding for the last week?
(a) Charcoal maker's shack
(b) The stone hut of the local doctor
(c) A tree
(d) The mountainside

9. What is Osvaldo surprised to hear that Leoni is, actually he is quite shocked to learn this fact.
(a) He is a fugitive.
(b) He is a woman.
(c) He is a Jew.
(d) He is a German.

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

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

12. Who do the Brosslers leave behind as they are escaping to the mountains?
(a) Father
(b) Mother
(c) Grandmother
(d) Grandfather

13. What does Duno's father do to him as they argue about whether or not to turn themselves in?
(a) Hugs him
(b) Kisses him
(c) Slaps him
(d) Tuns away from him

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

15. Where does Schramm finally lie down in order to begin to recuperate from his illness?
(a) A tent
(b) Stone floor
(c) Hayloft
(d) Mountain cave

Short Answer Questions

1. Leto delivers a message to Claudette telling her that __________ has not forgotten her, but has gotten lost in a farm until the snow melts.

2. How many children did Klara lose before finally having Adolf?

3. What does Claudette leave in return for the gifts she and her father find on the flat rock?

4. What does Schramm fall to the ground with after his confession?

5. How many women were surrounding Schramm and feigning grief at his demise?

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