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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 Isma reveal to Renzo, even though it seems she would not say anything to anyone?
(a) Nothing
(b) She is a boy
(c) She is a German
(d) She is Stefania from Austria

2. What do the German soldiers assume the woman in #158 is as they paw through her laundry?
(a) Sister
(b) Nurse
(c) Slut
(d) Orphan

3. Who has developed a successful system and is defeating the Germans in this area?
(a) Bandinis
(b) Brigade
(c) Bridgemen
(d) Resistance Allies

4. What does Renzo want Santino to build for a German engineering firm?
(a) Stone building
(b) Trick door
(c) Stone bridge
(d) Faulty sea wall

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which friend of Duno was violently killed, leading Schramm to teach Duno about medical matters?

3. Sister Dimples arranges for a meeting between Angelo and who else?

4. Who is Mirella expecting a visit from as they are in the Hunchback's house?

5. Mirella is convinced that Hitler harbors an atypical __________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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