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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. Who does Claudia want to marry under the guidance of Leto as the minister of the vows?
(a) Iacopo
(b) Renzo
(c) Angelo
(d) Santino

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

3. Who have invaded France at this point of the novel, showing their strength in battle?
(a) Germans
(b) Allies
(c) Russians
(d) Swedish

4. For how long has Claudia worked for Bettinna and Tercilla as a helper with household chores?
(a) One week
(b) One month
(c) One day
(d) One year

5. Who is the chauffeur of the large Vatican car for Massimo Malcovato?
(a) Tomitz
(b) Angelo
(c) Renzo
(d) Santino

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the little mute to whom Angelo feels close?

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

3. Who has taken in hundreds of people needing a place to sleep and a meal?

4. What does Renzo want Santino to build for a German engineering firm?

5. What do the German soldiers assume the woman in #158 is as they paw through her laundry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Duno know how to care for the injured?

2. What does Santino see when he is on the crowded train?

3. What makes the German soldiers stop looking through the laundry basket Claudia Cicala is carrying?

4. What has little Angelo Soncini realized about his position at the boarding school?

5. What are being dropped from the sky, causing rumors to ravage Italy?

6. How does Schramm describe Hitler's stories?

7. What does Renzo do once he realizes he has no one to live for now that the war is over?

8. What was the real story behind the raping of the girl by the six German soldiers?

9. What are Renzo and Schramm supervising together?

10. Why does Artur almost shoot a young boy he sees while sitting out with Renzo/Ugo?

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