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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what political ideology does Remo remain loyal in 1946?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Nazism.

3. Which of Useppe's features appears unusual, starting in 1947?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His hair.
(c) His mouth.
(d) His lips.

4. Who was not one of the world leaders that met after World War II to define the peace and new boundaries?
(a) Hirohito.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Truman.
(d) Stalin.

5. How does Bella save Useppe's life?
(a) She brings him his medicine.
(b) She pulls him from a burning building.
(c) She keeps him from drowning.
(d) She attacks a would-be kidnapper.

6. How does Davide die?
(a) He has a stroke.
(b) He is beaten to death.
(c) He is killed in a robbery.
(d) He overdoses on drugs.

7. Trade union leaders were assassinated, in 1947, in what city?
(a) Nice.
(b) Rome.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Venice.

8. Where does Ida spend the last nine years of her life?
(a) In her apartment.
(b) In an asylum.
(c) With a relative.
(d) In a nursing home.

9. Ida imagines that Nino is angry with her, after his death, for what?
(a) Not stopping him from his illicit activities.
(b) Not taking better care of Useppe.
(c) Not protecting him.
(d) Giving birth to him.

10. According to Davide, why is there no need for a revolution in 1947?
(a) Because the political situation at the time is good.
(b) Because there is a more peaceful approach for what they want to accomplish.
(c) Because there is a Christ in all of us that is waiting to be recognized.
(d) Because a revolution wouldn't accomplish their goals anyway.

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

12. How many of the thousand Jews who left Tiburtina returned in 1945?
(a) A hundred.
(b) Twenty-six.
(c) Forty-seven.
(d) Fifteen.

13. 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) Flour.
(d) Nuts.

14. What does Useppe wonder about Nino, during one of his night terrors?
(a) If Nino is sick.
(b) If Nino has gone to America without him.
(c) If Nino is dead.
(d) If Nino still has his dog.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of food does Useppe buy for himself and Bella during one of their adventures in the city?

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

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

4. What does Ida do, for the first time, in 1946?

5. Where is Davide Segre's family home?

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