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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 Renzo advise that Iacopo do with his synagogue for the time being?
(a) Burn it
(b) Reopen it
(c) Close it down
(d) Give it to the Germans

2. Klara believed that ________ stained her soul black.
(a) her uncle
(b) motherhood
(c) adultery
(d) dirt

3. What would NOT be necessary to nurse Schramm back to health?
(a) Nursing
(b) Vitamins
(c) Cold, dry air
(d) Plain food

4. What confirmed for Schramm that Irmgard had ruined his family?
(a) The Nazi beliefs
(b) His own propensity for evil
(c) Mother's suicide
(d) His mother said so

5. 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) Santino
(b) Tomitz
(c) Albert
(d) Renzo

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the young accomplice who tempts the German soldiers with her short skirt and her tight shirt?

2. Who is the one-armed son who is not taken off to war to fight with the Army?

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

4. What did Adolf feel shameful about as he grew up in his home?

5. Osvaldo is impatient with the __________ and with the war.

Short Essay Questions

1. When Pierino stutters, what does Leto say in order to make him feel better about it?

2. What kind of mother was Klara Hitler to her son, Adolf Hitler?

3. What happened to the Jews of Italy when Mussolini surrendered in 1942?

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

5. Describe who Pierino is.

6. What does Tomitz come to tell those at the Rabbi's house?

7. Why isn't Battista Goletta able to help the Brosslers in hiding from the Germans?

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

9. What happened to Angelo Soncini's baby sister?

10. What are some of the things that Adolf is afraid of at the beginning of the manuscript which may have led to his own sense of purity?

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