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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 Prosperine do after Papa beats Ignazia for the first time? She threatens to castrate him ________________.
(a) With a razor blade.
(b) With her teeth.
(c) With a hot poker.
(d) At knifepoint.

2. The memoir goes into details about how Italian families negotiate a ___________ for their children.
(a) Marriage.
(b) First communion.
(c) Funeral.
(d) Baptism.

3. What did Thomas and Dominick have to do in order to go to All Saint's Mass in the morning?
(a) They had to walk with Ma and Ray.
(b) Not go trick or treating.
(c) Get on a bus.
(d) Go to bed early on Halloween.

4. What color is the hair of the second child to which Ignazia gives birth during her marriage to Papa?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blonde.

5. Papa will not let the local priest _________ the girl as she was made from sin, according to his belief.
(a) Hold.
(b) Bury.
(c) See.
(d) Baptize.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Papa admit he thinks that Pasquale was doing with his pet monkey?

2. Dessa reveals that she has started to go to __________ again after volunteering at a children's hospice.

3. What are Papa's friends trying to talk him into, though he is trying to be firm about his decision?

4. What does Sheffer bring for Dominick to use in order to meet with Thomas before his hearing?

5. What does Ignazia refuse to attend, even though these are thrown with Papa in mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dominick see when he climbs to the third story in order to paint the Roods' house anyway?

2. Why is Vincenzo killed after Papa decides to disown him instead of shaming him?

3. What is the incident which makes Papa finally go to confession after he begins to think about how far he has strayed?

4. What does Dominick evade when he is talking with Patel at the beginning of this section of the story?

5. What does Papa receive during the blessing of the school, which overwhelms him?

6. How does Papa become the first Italian boss in the textile mill where he works, according to his memoir?

7. What is the thing that Papa beats Ignazia for, according to his memoir, in this story?

8. What does Papa find out about Prosperine and Ignazia has he searches the kitchen for poison?

9. How did Dominick get Thomas in trouble when they were kids and they were in mass with Ray and Ma?

10. What does Pasquale do which makes Papa so upset that he begins to weep for Pasquale?

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