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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is changing about Nino's behavior, in 1942?
(a) He is becoming more militant.
(b) He is refusing to go to school or work.
(c) He is working as many hours as he can to stay away from home.
(d) He is visiting his mother and brother more often.

2. How does Carlo respond when encouraged to join the armed revolution?
(a) He gets excited, and decides to join them.
(b) He politely declines without stating his reasons.
(c) He quietly and composedly agrees to go with them.
(d) He states that violence is against his ideals.

3. What does Ida name her second son?
(a) Nino.
(b) Alfio.
(c) Ninuzzu.
(d) Useppe.

4. Where was the Nazi-Fascist Republic of Salo formed in 1943?
(a) Western Germany.
(b) Eastern Germany.
(c) Southern Italy.
(d) Northern Italy.

5. Where does Ida stash her life savings during the air raids?
(a) In her mattress.
(b) In a hole in the wall.
(c) Behind her stove.
(d) In her corset.

6. What is the name of Nino's girlfriend, in late 1943?
(a) Isabella.
(b) Desdemona.
(c) Maria.
(d) Julia.

7. What rules were created by the new ordinance which went into effect at the end of 1943?
(a) Jews could no longer have jobs or transact business in Italy.
(b) Jewish possessions could be confiscated and divided among victims of air raids.
(c) Any and all Jews found in the vicinity of Rome would be immediately deported.
(d) All food would be rationed, and could no longer be bought.

8. Why is Ida anxious about seeing Signora DiSegni?
(a) DiSegni has the power to get Ida a job, and help her keep it.
(b) DiSegni had threatened to get Useppe taken away from Ida.
(c) Ida had confessed her Jewish heritage to DiSegni.
(d) DiSegni is now a member of the German army.

9. What does Ida begin doing when the air raid alarms go off, in 1943?
(a) She hides only when they go off at night.
(b) She takes Useppe and runs to the basement.
(c) She runs and hides only if she hears a plane.
(d) She ignores them, believing nothing will happen.

10. In late 1943, all young men in Rome were in danger of what?
(a) Young men were only in danger if they were Jewish.
(b) Being taken and forced to serve in the German military.
(c) Being killed on sight.
(d) Being sent to concentration camps.

11. What city was burned to the ground by the Nazis in 1943?
(a) Rome.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Belsen.
(d) Stalingrad.

12. Ida meets another Giuseppe in 1943, and his profession is what?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Soldier.
(c) Marble cutter.
(d) Carpenter.

13. What happened to Mussolini in late 1943?
(a) He was taken prisoner.
(b) He was overthrown.
(c) He was executed.
(d) He was arrested.

14. Nino's friend Quattropunte is named for his skill with what?
(a) Four-wheeled vehicles.
(b) Four-letter words.
(c) Four-sided nails.
(d) Four-sided dice.

15. Where is Gunther from?
(a) Dachau.
(b) Auschwitz.
(c) Belize.
(d) Bergen-Belsen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ninuzzu?

2. Haile Selassie was restored to the throne of what nation in 1941?

3. What is Gunther's profession?

4. When confronted by Nino, Carlo claims to be a proponent of what political philosophy?

5. How does Ninuzzu feel about his baby brother?

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