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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1946 History, 1946 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object does the German soldier give to Ida?
(a) A flower.
(b) A pocketwatch.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A knife.

2. Why does Useppe develop an aversion to newspapers, in 1945?
(a) Because of the pictures of tortured and dead people from the concentration camps.
(b) Because his mother uses them to try to teach him to read.
(c) Because his brother despises the press, and newspapers in particular.
(d) Because the ink rubs off on his hands.

3. What vice did Ida's father have?
(a) He was perpetually lazy and unemployed.
(b) He was an alcoholic.
(c) He was a gambling addict.
(d) He was a womanizer.

4. What does a stranger tell Useppe about Blitz, after their building is bombed?
(a) Blitz may still be stuck in the rubble.
(b) Blitz has disappeared, and no one knows where he is.
(c) Blitz has turned into a white dove.
(d) Blitz was not in the building when it was bombed.

5. What happens to Filomena's pet rabbit?
(a) It is traded for canned food.
(b) It freezes to death.
(c) It is eaten.
(d) It dies of starvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gunther feel about his upcoming trip?

2. What happened to Mussolini in late 1943?

3. What does Ida begin doing when the air raid alarms go off, in 1943?

4. Ida gets a job, in 1944, teaching Italian to soldiers from what country?

5. How does Useppe react to the girl that Nino brings home?

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