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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Lewis' time in the American Evacuation Hospital, he is frequently disturbed by what noise a few hundred yards away?
(a) Panzers.
(b) Mortars.
(c) Howitzers.
(d) Rockets.

2. 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?
(a) Merchant.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Doctor.

3. 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 Nazionale.
(b) Villa Republica.
(c) Villa Roma.
(d) Villa Navona.

4. Lewis is invited to a dinner party that features a spaghetti-eating contest; which of the following individuals is said to have introduced the classic method for this competition?
(a) Fernando.
(b) Visco.
(c) Acerra.
(d) Nola.

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) Pompeii.
(c) Florence.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Lewis passes through Naples on his way back to his unit after his illness, what does he say is the general mood of the Italian civilians?

2. Lewis and his companions enter the catacombs behind San Gennaro on reports that German SS officers are hidden there. How many galleries are in this catacomb?

3. Lewis notes in his November 25, 1943 entry that there is an aversion in Italy to bothering which of the following species of bird?

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

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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