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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where have Porzia and Cicci been living since the bombing started in Milan?

2. Who is arrested at the end of Chapter 13?

3. Where is Mimo sent in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 13, what does the man have that Pino sees searched and then shot by the Nazis?

5. In Chapter 6, what time does Father Re awaken Pino?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 12, how are Jews hidden when the Nazis search Casa Alpina?

2. At the end of Chapter 15, how and what does Pino learn about the gray men?

3. In Chapter 15, where does Pino see Anna again?

4. What happens to Pino and Mimo when they are at the theater in Chapter 3?

5. In Chapter 10, what does Pino find at the shepherd's hut?

6. How does Luigi describe his store in Chapter 8?

7. In Chapter 14, how and where is Pino injured?

8. In Chapter 1, what is being done at the Duomo, the Basilica di Santa Maria Nascente, the Gothic cathedral in the center of Milan and why?

9. In Chapter 6, what does Pino wear to go hiking?

10. What challenges does Pino have to solve when he is guiding Mrs. Napolitano and the D'Angelo family to Switzerland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pino explodes when he hears his family playing music and having a party when he returns home after a bombing at the movie theater. What has Pino experienced at the movie theater? How has that affected him? Why does he get so angry when he returns home? What is revealed about survival through the incident?

Essay Topic 2

Many of the Jews Pino sees hauled away by train are being sent to Auschwitz. What do Pino and his family learn about Auschwitz? What does Auschwitz reveal about the atrocities of the Germans?

Essay Topic 3

Pino experiences internal and external conflicts in the novel. What conflicts do Pino and others experience? Are most of the conflicts in the novel internal or external? Are they mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? How does conflict affect plot?

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