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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Davide tells Nino that, someday, he wants to do what?
(a) Start a business.
(b) Travel the world.
(c) Own his own home.
(d) Write a book.

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. Why does Useppe love newspapers?
(a) Because of all the pictures.
(b) Because they can be made into hats.
(c) Because he can draw on them.
(d) Because of the way they smell.

4. Useppe's doctor wants Useppe to look at what caged animal?
(a) A hamster.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A rat.
(d) A mouse.

5. What animal does Useppe hear, which he thinks is saying "It's a joke"?
(a) A cat.
(b) A dog.
(c) A squirrel.
(d) A bird.

6. Where was Segre's family killed during the war?
(a) Auschwitz-Birkenau.
(b) Auschwitz-Manowitz.
(c) Bergen-Belsen.
(d) Dachau.

7. As the result of a group of women holding up a truck, Ida manages to come home with a bag of what?
(a) Meat.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Nuts.
(d) Flour.

8. What does Ida eat, in order to save food for her son?
(a) Bugs.
(b) Grass.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Bread.

9. How does Davide feel about God?
(a) He hopes that God doesn't exist.
(b) He wonders why God lets bad things happen.
(c) He doesn't give much thought to the question of religion, and doesn't care if God exists or not.
(d) He is angry at God, and does everything he can to make God angry.

10. For what purposes did Germans overtake some of the buildings in Rome?
(a) To quarantine the Jews.
(b) To turn them into torture chambers.
(c) To store supplies in them.
(d) To house the troops.

11. Scimo admits, to Useppe, that he escaped from what?
(a) A reformatory.
(b) A sanitarium.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A kidnapping.

12. Why does the doctor feel, in the last chapter, that neither Useppe nor Ida has long to live?
(a) He knew that the German army was advancing their way.
(b) He knew that they both had terminal illnesses.
(c) He saw the goodbyes in their eyes.
(d) He saw how weak and malnourished they were.

13. What happened to Hitler, at the end of World War II?
(a) He committed suicide.
(b) He was taken prisoner.
(c) He fled and was not found for years.
(d) He was assassinated.

14. Why doesn't Ida attend Nino's funeral?
(a) She doesn't want to see the other people he associated himself with.
(b) She doesn't want to remember him that way.
(c) She is so confused that she doesn't know when or where it takes place.
(d) She is afraid she cannot handle it emotionally.

15. A pact was formed, in 1947, between which two entities?
(a) The Nazi party and the USSR.
(b) The USSR and the Fascist Italian regime.
(c) The Vatican and the Nazi party.
(d) The Fascist Italian regime and the Vatican.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Nino's second dog?

2. According to Davide, why is there no need for a revolution in 1947?

3. What does Useppe ask his mother not to tell Nino?

4. What does Davide recall about the face of the man he killed?

5. Which American president died in 1945?

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