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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the new head of the civil engineering group that will rebuild the town?
(a) Tomitz
(b) Mirella
(c) Renzo
(d) Jakub Landau

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

3. An elderly contessa tells the German soldiers that the villa is a _________ and that il maggiore is trapped in Milan.
(a) church
(b) hospital
(c) elderly home
(d) children's home

4. Who does Artur almost shoot because he thinks he is an assassin?
(a) A young boy on a bike
(b) Loeb
(c) Renzo
(d) Tomitz

5. Who is one of the many thousands of people who were killed at San Mauro?
(a) Tomitz
(b) Don Leto
(c) Angelo
(d) Renzo

6. Who did Landau once try to recruit for the CNL, though he was turned down?
(a) Renzo
(b) Santino
(c) Iacopo
(d) Angelo

7. Who is supervising the train track dynamiting operation along with Renzo?
(a) Tomitz
(b) Schramm
(c) Angelo
(d) Leto

8. Battista threatens _______ that he must tell the Germans who killed the five soldiers or he will tell them about his own Communist cousins.
(a) Renzo
(b) Santino
(c) Leto
(d) Tomitz

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

10. Who is Duno treating, though he has Iacopo's help to do so?
(a) Albert
(b) Renzo
(c) Claudette
(d) Schramm

11. What does Malcovato have unlimited access to which makes him a good person to know?
(a) Ration cards
(b) Germans
(c) Goats
(d) Hitler

12. What does Mirella give to anyone and everyone who comes to her?
(a) New transport cards
(b) Jobs
(c) Wine
(d) Stones to carry

13. What does Renzo NOT go into the town to do after the war is declared to be over?
(a) Drink an espresso
(b) Buy a newspaper
(c) Get a haircut
(d) Buy a coat

14. Who rushes in to tell Santino about German soldiers raping a young girl?
(a) Renzo
(b) Tomitz
(c) Claudia
(d) Angelo

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ____________ vows on Alberto's grave that Claudia's mother and brothers will be found.

3. Who goes down to meet a lone officer of the Republican troops?

4. Who is killed when German soldiers attack Maria and her companion?

5. What do the special ops team members do before their plane explodes?

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