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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Tuberculosis
(c) Cancer
(d) Plague

3. Who was one of the women who feigned grief beside Schramm as he passed through German checkpoints?
(a) Claudette
(b) Mirella
(c) Lidia
(d) Renzo

4. What does Renzo advise that Iacopo do with his synagogue for the time being?
(a) Reopen it
(b) Burn it
(c) Close it down
(d) Give it to the Germans

5. Of what military group was Renzo once part of?
(a) Italy's Navy
(b) Italian Royal Air Force
(c) French Foreign Legion
(d) English brigadiers

6. What are other women doing as the answer to #112 distracts the soldiers?
(a) Stealing ignition wires
(b) Marking their homes
(c) Sneaking Jews out
(d) Burnign German leaflets

7. In 1938, every city in Italy had to send ten anti-Fascist _________ to jail, which is why the answer to #50 went to jail.
(a) Men
(b) Spies
(c) Jews
(d) Priests

8. Who is now caring for Schramm, nursing him back to health?
(a) Mirella Soncini
(b) Santini
(c) Albert Blum
(d) Claudette

9. Santino tells Claudia to save her _______ as she might need them later.
(a) jewels
(b) tears
(c) shoes
(d) biscuits

10. What has Schramm traveled in in order to get to his final destination as noted in #101?
(a) Buggy
(b) Coffin
(c) Train
(d) Tank

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

12. What has Rinaldo Miroglio arranged for the travelers to the border of Italy?
(a) New passports
(b) Birth certificates
(c) New identities
(d) Lodging

13. Osvaldo is impatient with the __________ and with the war.
(a) sinners
(b) soldiers
(c) Germans
(d) church

14. Who is not really a criminal but went to jail in place of his brother-in-law who was also not a criminal?
(a) Tomitz
(b) Renzo
(c) Schramm
(d) Loeb

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Renzo and Tomitz tell the German police that Duno is a __________ who lost his family.

2. What is the one word Pierino says in response to finding out that Albert's wife and boys were put on a train?

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

4. What did Adolf believe others who were not has faultless as he was should have done to them?

5. Renzo decides to apply as a ________ for the Dairy Association as a way to help out.

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