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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the characters at the beginning of Section 9 say Marchica must claim to have happened to cause him to confess to murder?
(a) Say police made it up.
(b) Say he lied.
(c) Say he was kidding.
(d) Say he was tortured.

2. Which character has been to prison many times and doesn't really mind going back in the book?
(a) Paolo Nicolosi.
(b) Diego Marchica.
(c) Passerello.
(d) Saro Pizzuco.

3. Which of the following realizations does Captain Bellodi not have regarding the murder trial after returning to his hometown in Section 10?
(a) He is a bad policeman.
(b) His detective work has come to nothing.
(c) No one will find a connection between the mafia and important officials.
(d) No one will ever admit to the existense of the mafia.

4. Who do the police allow to sit in the captain's office during interrogation in Section 6?
(a) Saro Pizzuco.
(b) Diego Marchica.
(c) Poalo Nicolosi.
(d) Minister Mancusi.

5. Where does Captain Bellodi say he knows he will go to at the end of the book?
(a) Rome.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Parma.

6. What does Marchica believe after the police show him a confession in Section 6?
(a) That Pizzuco confessed.
(b) That the police are liars.
(c) That he is innocent.
(d) That the don confessed.

7. Where does Captain Bellodi tell some girls that most mafia bosses would stay while they were in jail in Section 10?
(a) In general population.
(b) The infirmary.
(c) The warden's office.
(d) Their cells.

8. How do the police obtain a confession to show Marchica in Section 6?
(a) They forge it.
(b) Pizzuco writes it.
(c) Don Arena writes it.
(d) Mrs. Nicolosi writes it.

9. Whose office is the man the police allow to sit in the captain's office during interrogation able to see into?
(a) Minister Mancusi's.
(b) Sergeant Major Ferlisi's.
(c) Sergeant D'Antona's.
(d) Sergeant Livigni's.

10. According to the first confession the police hear in Section 7, where does Marchica hide out after the murders?
(a) His mother's home.
(b) Pizzuco's mother's home.
(c) The church.
(d) Pizzuco's sister's home.

11. What does a confession suggest is the only motivation for Marchica to commit murder?
(a) He is a psychopath.
(b) His violent temper.
(c) He holds grudges.
(d) There is no reason.

12. What is the name of the minister that is revealed to have possible mafia ties in Section 8?
(a) Minister La Rosa.
(b) Minister Livigni.
(c) Minister D'Antona.
(d) Minister Mancuso.

13. Who does the captain ask the don if he told to get rid of Colasberna?
(a) Ciccio La Rosa.
(b) Paolo Nicolosi.
(c) Saro Pizzuco.
(d) Diego Marchica.

14. Whose poise is considered unflappable in Section 9?
(a) Saro Pizzuco.
(b) Don Arena.
(c) Diego Marchica.
(d) Mrs. Nicolosi.

15. How does the high-ranking minister react when he hears one of his ministers might have mafia connections in Section 8?
(a) Excited.
(b) Happy.
(c) Horrified.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Captain first interrogate in Section 9?

2. What kind of projects does the Captain point out that the don has been involved with at the end of Section 9?

3. Who writes a full confession at the beginning of Section 7?

4. What do the confessions the police obtain insinuate Colasberna did to cause him to be murdered?

5. Who does the man the police allow to sit in the captain's office first witness the police questioning in Section 6?

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