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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Osvaldo wonders why the ________ does not excommunicate Hitler, but Leto understands how politics work.
(a) local priest
(b) Pope
(c) Archbishop
(d) Cardinal

3. What did Adolf feel shameful about as he grew up in his home?
(a) His large nose
(b) The incest of his mother
(c) His plain clothes
(d) His Jewish faith

4. 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) Eyes
(c) Faces
(d) Pain

5. Who is the inebriated German Waffen SS officer that goes looking for a priest?
(a) Reincke
(b) Klaus Blosser
(c) Werner Schramm
(d) Ugo Messner

6. Santino was a drystone waller who hates _____________.
(a) concrete
(b) metal
(c) wood
(d) dust

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

8. Who was impregnated by her uncle and then she eventually married him?
(a) Adele Hitler
(b) Claudette Blum
(c) Klara Hitler
(d) Karla Hitler

9. What would NOT be necessary to nurse Schramm back to health?
(a) Plain food
(b) Nursing
(c) Vitamins
(d) Cold, dry air

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

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

12. Pierino is given a gift, a ___________, from the milkman, Renzo.
(a) hat
(b) piece of bread
(c) new coat
(d) gun

13. Who is the young accomplice who tempts the German soldiers with her short skirt and her tight shirt?
(a) Claudette Blum
(b) Maria Avani
(c) Lidia Leoni
(d) Adele Toselli

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

15. Renzo decides to apply as a ________ for the Dairy Association as a way to help out.
(a) clerk
(b) driver
(c) milker
(d) accountant

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will happen to any Jews who do not surrender by the indicated date of September 28, 1943?

3. What did Angelo Soncini's baby sister have an accident with that caused her to die?

4. What did Klara Hitler finally die from as she seemingly could not be saved by a Jewish doctor?

5. Why was Schramm's sister institutionalized by her family when she was a child?

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