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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 the name of the little mute to whom Angelo feels close?
(a) Sister Claudette
(b) Sister Dimples
(c) Suaro Corniglia
(d) Isma

2. Mirella believes: If you can help, you must _______.
(a) pay
(b) help
(c) stay
(d) work hard

3. What does Jakub laugh at when he is talking to Iacopo?
(a) The rabbi's food
(b) The rabbi's blessing
(c) The rabbi's accent
(d) The rabbi's clothing

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

5. Who is Duno treating, though he has Iacopo's help to do so?
(a) Claudette
(b) Albert
(c) Schramm
(d) Renzo

Short Answer Questions

1. German officers arrive in order to take over the villa for a ___________.

2. ____________ vows on Alberto's grave that Claudia's mother and brothers will be found.

3. What does Simon tell himself not to do when he finds himself in a snowdrift and unable to move?

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

5. What does Renzo NOT go into the town to do after the war is declared to be over?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happens to Simon Henley's plane during the conflict with the German planes?

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

8. How does Schramm describe Hitler's stories?

9. Who is Osvaldo now driving a car for?

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

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