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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where are the Jews supposedly going to go to be resettled when they surrender to the determined place?
(a) West
(b) South
(c) East
(d) North

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

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

5. How did the Germans trick the Blums in Belgium?
(a) By telling them they were to receive money
(b) By bombing the country
(c) By coming in tanks
(d) By surrendering, at first

6. What does Schramm weep at when he is recuperating from his illness?
(a) His pain
(b) His past sins
(c) The mother's lullabies
(d) His cowardice

7. Mirella's life as a __________ was difficult and she is now enjoying the solitude of being in the mountains.
(a) pregnant woman
(b) mother
(c) Rabbi's wife
(d) social butterfly

8. Duno feels like a ________ in the mountains, but he knows he will never go back.
(a) chased bird
(b) dove
(c) orphan
(d) refugee

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

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

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

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

13. What did Adolf believe others who were not has faultless as he was should have done to them?
(a) Cleaned
(b) Ignored
(c) Taught a lesson
(d) Annihilation

14. What person of the Bible also spoke with a "halt of tongue" according to Leto?
(a) Peter
(b) David
(c) Jesus
(d) Moses

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of training does the answer to #14 have that makes him useful?

2. What is Schramm dying from, though Renzo decides he can help him to life long enough to return to see his family?

3. What kinds of laws does Lidia find annoying?

4. Who did Serafino Brizzolari already confess to, though he did not follow his advice for absolution?

5. Who is now caring for Schramm, nursing him back to health?

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