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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. What does Davide recall about the face of the man he killed?
(a) It was peaceful.
(b) It was surprised.
(c) It was agonized.
(d) It was childlike.

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

3. Davide becomes addicted to what substance?
(a) Morphine.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Cocaine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not a condition from which Useppe is suffering in 1946?

2. Nino is very proud of what possession in 1946?

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

4. What happens to Bella after Useppe's death?

5. How many of the thousand Jews who left Tiburtina returned in 1945?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ida feel about Useppe's frequent outings alone?

2. What relationship develops between Bella and Useppe in 1947?

3. What is the situation of the few Jews who return to the Ghetto in 1945?

4. What does Davide say about Jesus, during his tavern lecture?

5. What happens when Ida tries to put Useppe in school?

6. What health problem does Useppe develop in 1946, and how does he respond?

7. Who is Scimo?

8. How does Ida feel about doctors?

9. What is revealed, during Davide's speech, about his feelings for the bourgeoisie and anarchy?

10. How does Bella save Useppe's life in 1947?

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