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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 is Italy hit with that helps in their resistance efforts in the war?
(a) Drought
(b) Snowstorm
(c) Heat wave
(d) Torrential rains

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

3. A girl on the crowded train diverts the Nazi soldiers' attention as a ____________ slides under the train seats.
(a) fugitive boy
(b) emaciated girl
(c) fugitive girl
(d) German soldier

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the chauffeur of the large Vatican car for Massimo Malcovato?

3. Angelo Soncini realizes he is not the only ______ in hiding at his boarding school.

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

5. What does Isma reveal to Renzo, even though it seems she would not say anything to anyone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Battista threaten Leto with when he tells him to tell the Germans who killed the five soliders?

2. How does Schramm describe Hitler's stories?

3. Why has Jakub Landau been caught at the German checkpoint?

4. What are Renzo and Schramm supervising together?

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

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

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

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

9. Who does Mirella turn away from her property, even though she generally takes in everyone she can?

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

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