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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of training does the answer to #14 have that makes him useful?
(a) Spy
(b) Doctor
(c) Lawyer
(d) Dentist

2. What did Klara do too long with her son Adolf as mentioned in the beginning of this book?
(a) Read to him
(b) Breast feed
(c) Toilet train
(d) Take him to church

3. 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) Priests
(b) Spies
(c) Men
(d) Jews

4. Who is Duno looking for when he enters the town, having heard of him in other areas?
(a) Leto
(b) Claudette
(c) Osvaldo
(d) Renzo

5. What does Schramm apologize for when he encounters Osvaldo later outside the church?
(a) His smell
(b) Stealing money
(c) German background
(d) Drunkenness

6. What does Renzo think the German army is going to make Italy pay for?
(a) The war costs
(b) The surrender of Mussolini
(c) The armistice
(d) The Jewish revolt

7. What is the first name of Renzo's forward thinking mother with whom he lives?
(a) Lenasta
(b) Lidia
(c) Loria
(d) Lividida

8. What is the one word Pierino says in response to finding out that Albert's wife and boys were put on a train?
(a) Hands
(b) Pain
(c) Faces
(d) Eyes

9. How many children did Klara lose before finally having Adolf?
(a) 4
(b)
(c) 2
(d) 3

10. Who was the famous figure who surrendered in 1942, seemingly ending the war in Italy?
(a) Hitler
(b) Benito Suarez
(c) Werner
(d) Mussolini

11. Who are now being forced into service in the German army and factories?
(a) No one
(b) Italian children
(c) Italian women
(d) Italian males

12. Who is the young solider who has taken up a keen interest in the Blums?
(a) Santino
(b) Santiago
(c) Rivka
(d) Carmichael

13. 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

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

15. Why was Schramm's sister institutionalized by her family when she was a child?
(a) Paranoia
(b) She wasn't institutionalized
(c) Lost eyes
(d) Encephalitis

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who was impregnated by her uncle and then she eventually married him?

4. What are other women doing as the answer to #112 distracts the soldiers?

5. What did Adolf believe himself to be because of all of the fear in his life?

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