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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Leto delivers a message to Claudette telling her that __________ has not forgotten her, but has gotten lost in a farm until the snow melts.
(a) Renzo
(b) Albert
(c) Santino
(d) Tomitz

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

4. Schramm now understands how people cling to one small ____________ of life as long as they can.
(a) taste
(b) piece
(c) thread
(d) moment

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

6. What does Iacopo admit to Mirella when they return home after Iacopo is released from jail?
(a) He is having an affair
(b) He is too tired to fight anymore
(c) He is not a Jew
(d) He wants a baby boy

7. What did Angelo Soncini's baby sister have an accident with that caused her to die?
(a) A hot pan
(b) A coal stove
(c) A water well
(d) A German

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

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

10. Leto was able to go to school because of his leg which would not allow him to _________ like other boys.
(a) read
(b) farm
(c) play
(d) run

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of position does Tranquillo Loeb hold for the Delegation for the Assistance of Hebrew Emigrants?

2. What is Osvaldo surprised to hear that Leoni is, actually he is quite shocked to learn this fact.

3. What is the first name of Renzo's forward thinking mother with whom he lives?

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

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

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