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

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

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

4. Who does Renzo give British money and a letter to?
(a) Tomitz
(b) Santino and Claudia
(c) Antonia
(d) Mirella

5. What does Messner give to Santino secretly as he tells him where to meet?
(a) A gun
(b) Transport papers
(c) Money
(d) A note from Claudette

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Simon Henley, from the special ops team?

2. A girl on the crowded train diverts the Nazi soldiers' attention as a ____________ slides under the train seats.

3. Who is supervising the train track dynamiting operation along with Renzo?

4. An elderly contessa tells the German soldiers that the villa is a _________ and that il maggiore is trapped in Milan.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the holiday that the United States and the Germans had hoped to meet in terms of ending the war?

4. By August, what is Renzo able to do after his injury?

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

6. What has happened to Alberto Fiori, formerly Albery Blum?

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

8. What are Renzo and Schramm supervising together?

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

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

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