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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his discussion of the Palace in Naples, how many bathrooms does Lewis say it has?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 5.

2. When a prostitute presents herself at the police station expecting a blanket in return for her services, Lewis is astonished to find that she is how old?
(a) 68.
(b) 12.
(c) 35.
(d) 6.

3. As Lewis and his companions prepare to land at Salerno, how does Lewis say the lecture by the Intelligence officer could have been summed up?
(a) The Germans will be there.
(b) There is nothing we do not know.
(c) We know nothing.
(d) Mussolini's OVRA has been disbanded.

4. The attendants who pass out the rejuvenating fluid when Lewis and his informant visit the bones of St. Andrew suffer what affliction, deemed to be lucky?
(a) Deaf.
(b) Hunchback.
(c) Paralyzed.
(d) Blind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the boy in "March 1944" who arrives at the 92nd General Hospital missing 3 fingers?

2. At the end of "February 1944" Lewis sees his first pazzariello on the Via San Pasquale; according to Lewis, this word translates to what?

3. As Lewis makes himself acquainted with Benevento, he says that the new Marshal of the town is a man by what name?

4. Lewis sees a man in Capaccio, whom he describes as an Italian Father Christmas, selling what at a table in his garden?

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?

(see the answer key)

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