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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through December.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After his return to Naples Lewis tells about an assault on local girls found in the company of Allied soldiers; he says that the assault took place from the gardens of which location?
(a) Villa Navona.
(b) Villa Roma.
(c) Villa Republica.
(d) Villa Nazionale.

2. Lewis sees a man in Capaccio, whom he describes as an Italian Father Christmas, selling what at a table in his garden?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Bread.
(c) Salt.
(d) Wine.

3. When discussing Neapolitans' odd superstitions and views on good/bad luck, Lewis notes that they believe a house suffers from the evil eye; what is the house number?
(a) Number 15.
(b) Number 3.
(c) Number 6.
(d) Number 12.

4. Which of the following activities has been legally resumed in December 1943?
(a) Writing.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Dancing.

5. After Lewis gives a hungry man some K rations he receives a strip of cloth that the giver insists will render him bulletproof; from what city did this cloth originate?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Rome.
(c) Florence.
(d) Pompeii.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the October 9, 1943 entry Lewis says that children in Naples are prying limpets off rocks for food. How much can the children collect in exchange for a pint of limpets?

2. After receiving the supposed good-luck cloth, Lewis hears that Americans from which division have orders to beat ANY Germans to death, even those who surrender?

3. Lewis talks about two large air raids that took place in August, resulting in Naples being extremely short on what in October 1943?

4. When Lewis first meets the man who will become his best informant, Vincente Lattarullo, he reports that the man is a member of which of the following professions?

5. When an attacker dressed as an American pulls a .45 automatic at a checkpoint, which of the following men is shot through the shoulder at close range?

(see the answer key)

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