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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Corelli plays on a _______________ team which won its match yesterday.
(a) tennis.
(b) soccer.
(c) football.
(d) rugby.

2. Who emerges as the local leader of the village after the earthquake?
(a) Pelagia.
(b) Dr. Iannis.
(c) Velisarios.
(d) Lucente.

3. What has the German soldier, Gunter Weber, been ordered to do?
(a) Execute the Italian soldiers.
(b) Return to Berlin.
(c) Take the villagers as prisoners.
(d) Train recruits on the island.

4. How does Corelli punish the two soldiers?
(a) He makes them run laps.
(b) He has them put in jail.
(c) He gives them kitchen duty for a month.
(d) He forces them to lick Kokolis' boots.

5. Dr. Iannis tells Corelli that if he marries Pelagia and remains in Greece he will never be successful at _______________.
(a) the language.
(b) a military career.
(c) his music.
(d) being a father.

6. What kind of meat are Hector and his men roasting over a fire in Chapter 36?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Pork.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Beef.

7. What does Corelli tell Pelagia as he embraces her?
(a) He wants her to run away with him.
(b) He wants to marry her.
(c) He will not see her again.
(d) He will be back after the war.

8. What city do the Germans bomb?
(a) Argus.
(b) Theopolis.
(c) Argostoli.
(d) Kokopelli.

9. Hector reads to the men from a book by ________________ while sitting around the campfire.
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Homer.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Dickens.

10. What does a fireman see near Dr. Iannis' house during an earthquake aftershock?
(a) Pelagia cleaning up rubble.
(b) Carlo's bones in his grave.
(c) Boys playing in the street.
(d) Road signs swallowed up by the earth.

11. Why does Mandras angrily confront Pelagia?
(a) Because he saw her flirting with men at the cafe.
(b) Because he thinks she is a spy.
(c) Because she has been rude to his mother.
(d) Because he heard she was in love with an Italian soldier.

12. What items does Carlo give to Dr. Iannis for safekeeping?
(a) Photographs and a journal.
(b) Photographs and letters.
(c) Manuscripts and a will.
(d) Manuscripts and letters.

13. Why do Hector's men stay with him?
(a) He pays them well.
(b) He has a great vision.
(c) He gives them three meals a day.
(d) He has threatened to kill them if they do not.

14. What does Pelagia do to Corelli when they pass in the doorway one day?
(a) Give him his mail.
(b) Ignores him.
(c) Kisses him on the cheek.
(d) Locks him out of the house.

15. Who terrorizes the islanders after the Germans depart?
(a) Polish resisitance members.
(b) Italian resistance members.
(c) French resistance members.
(d) Greek resistance members.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Iannis give to the British spy?

2. What does Antonia name her son?

3. What does Corelli suggest to his men as they realize they are being driven to a firing range to be executed?

4. What does Corelli say about kissing Pelagia?

5. Whose body is buried in the doctor's yard?

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