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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, the author briefly discusses the discoveries pertaining to what?
(a) The art of war.
(b) Politics and sociology.
(c) The structure of matter.
(d) The workings of the human brain.

2. Gandhi was arrested by troops from what nation, in 1942?
(a) Britain.
(b) The United States.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

3. In early 1944, what news does Ida get regarding Nino and Carlo?
(a) They are fine, but no longer in the area.
(b) They have been killed.
(c) No one has heard from them, and their fate is unknown.
(d) They are fine, and still nearby.

4. What does Nino promise to Useppe, but fails to deliver?
(a) New clothes.
(b) A bigger, better house.
(c) A fancy meal.
(d) A bicycle.

5. Who arrives with a message for Carlo Vivaldi, during one of his nights at the shelter?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A monk.
(c) A German soldier.
(d) A rabbi.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Carlo useless as a fighter?

3. What is Nino's new nickname, as a revolutionary?

4. What health problem plagued Ida as a child?

5. What does the drunken German soldier do to Ida?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Ida and Gunther?

2. How does Nino treat his mother when he is 16?

3. What ultimately happens to Ida's parents?

4. What news does Remo bring Ida, regarding Nino and the other revolutionaries, at the beginning of 1944?

5. What happens when Gunther goes into Remo's in the first chapter?

6. What is happening to the Jews in the ghetto, in 1941?

7. How does Ida respond when she learns that she is pregnant with Useppe?

8. How are Ida's parents characterized?

9. How is Ida Mancuso described, at the beginning of Chapter 2?

10. What was the situation of the Jews in 1938?

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