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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tomitz offer to give the rabbi and his family after telling them to leave town?
(a) Clothing
(b) Maps
(c) Baptismal certificates
(d) Money

2. Which character knows three languages, but wants to learn Italian now?
(a) Albert
(b) Loeb
(c) Renzo
(d) Claudette

3. Schramm recalls how the _________ of the world romanticized illness and fainting.
(a) artists
(b) writers
(c) actors
(d) doctors

4. Angelo tells his neighbor Lidia Leoni that he saw Signor Ravera walking around with a bucket that contained Signora Ravera's __________.
(a) money
(b) head
(c) clothing
(d) jewelry

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was simply a reflection of Klara's massive guilt and self-loathing?

2. What are Tomitz and Renzo working on as they travel on their way to Valdottavo?

3. Who does Santino pray furiously to in order to help the group find a place to stay?

4. Why is the answer to #14 in the area of Porto Sant'Andrea?

5. Who is the mother of the girl who has been leaving food for the Blums to find?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Werner Schramm compare war to misdiagnosed tuberculosis?

2. What does Renzo say as he is out in public with Mirella?

3. Describe the former life of the Brosslers.

4. What did Lidia do while Renzo was in jail, a fact she admits to him when he reveals his meeting with Schramm?

5. What is Loeb's frantic warning to everyone he speaks to after the bells ring at the church?

6. What does Schramm understand now that he sees how life really is rather than how it is portrayed by artists?

7. Describe Renzo's history with the Italian Royal Air Force.

8. What is Doctor Werner Schramm looking for in the small village of Porto Sant' Andrea?

9. What does Werner Schramm apologize for when he finally runs into Osvaldo?

10. What was Klara Hitler's fate that might have further spurned on Adolf's eventual mission in life?

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