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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ____________ was injured and out of commission, and Italy's war was handed off to second-tier generals, both American and German.
(a) von Thadden
(b) Hitler
(c) Reinecke
(d) Kesserling

2. Mirella believes: If you can help, you must _______.
(a) help
(b) pay
(c) work hard
(d) stay

3. Who has developed a successful system and is defeating the Germans in this area?
(a) Bandinis
(b) Bridgemen
(c) Brigade
(d) Resistance Allies

4. What is the name of the little mute to whom Angelo feels close?
(a) Isma
(b) Sister Dimples
(c) Sister Claudette
(d) Suaro Corniglia

5. German officers arrive in order to take over the villa for a ___________.
(a) storage facility
(b) bunker
(c) command center
(d) hospital

6. Who does Renzo say should be honored as countrymen?
(a) Catholics
(b) Partisans
(c) Republicans
(d) Germans

7. What do the German soldiers assume the woman in #158 is as they paw through her laundry?
(a) Orphan
(b) Sister
(c) Slut
(d) Nurse

8. What was the reason why the girl agreed to have sex with the German soldiers?
(a) Money
(b) A car
(c) Food
(d) A motorbike

9. Which friend of Duno was violently killed, leading Schramm to teach Duno about medical matters?
(a) Lidia
(b) Nello
(c) Arturo
(d) Renzo

10. What does Renzo want Santino to build for a German engineering firm?
(a) Stone building
(b) Trick door
(c) Stone bridge
(d) Faulty sea wall

11. Simon is summoned and told that he was not to let the partisans into Sant'Andrea until ____________.
(a) the next month
(b) allied forces arrived
(c) Christmas
(d) he was told to

12. Who is Mirella expecting a visit from as they are in the Hunchback's house?
(a) Hitler
(b) Iacopo
(c) Reinecke
(d) Renzo

13. What city has the Nazi party lost in their struggle to conquer Italy?
(a) Naples
(b) Florence
(c) Rome
(d) Milan

14. Santino tells Leto that the wall's strength comes from the _________ as well as from what you see.
(a) materials
(b) maker
(c) Lord
(d) inside

15. Angelo Soncini realizes he is not the only ______ in hiding at his boarding school.
(a) Italian
(b) male
(c) German
(d) Jew

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Renzo need to walk when it comes time for him to leave in August?

2. Who is one of the many thousands of people who were killed at San Mauro?

3. Who has been promoted within the SS Walther Reinhardt Division?

4. Who have invaded France at this point of the novel, showing their strength in battle?

5. Who is the new head of the civil engineering group that will rebuild the town?

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