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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 Antonia Usodimare running her place as?
(a) Sweatshop
(b) Boarding house
(c) Whorehouse
(d) Hospital

2. What city has the Nazi party lost in their struggle to conquer Italy?
(a) Rome
(b) Milan
(c) Naples
(d) Florence

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

4. What does Renzo NOT go into the town to do after the war is declared to be over?
(a) Get a haircut
(b) Buy a coat
(c) Buy a newspaper
(d) Drink an espresso

5. What does Simon tell himself not to do when he finds himself in a snowdrift and unable to move?
(a) Move
(b) Scream
(c) Cry
(d) Pray

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Messner give to Santino secretly as he tells him where to meet?

2. Renzo believes his shame is the last vestige of _________ in a vicious, barbaric world.

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

4. Who does Renzo say should be honored as countrymen?

5. Mirella hopes that the war will be over by _________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are Renzo and Schramm supervising together?

8. What does Maria Avoni teach Simon Henley about as she takes him to his first camp?

9. What does Renzo return to reveal to the others?

10. How does Schramm describe Hitler's stories?

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