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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Rosa's grandmother, whom she has never met?
(a) Marcella.
(b) Francesca.
(c) Angelica.
(d) Daria.

2. What is Paolo Luigio carrying when Antonia runs into him when he is on his way into Sofia's building?
(a) Money.
(b) Passports.
(c) Food.
(d) Watches.

3. After Frankie is born, during what years do Sofia and Antonia walk a different route to school to avoid the shantytowns?
(a) 1932 and 1933.
(b) 1934 and 1935.
(c) 1931 and 1932.
(d) 1930 and 1931.

4. When the trees begin to lose their leaves, what does Paolo ask Antonia to do with him?
(a) Take a walk.
(b) Go to a movie.
(c) Supper.
(d) Lunch.

5. When do Sofia and Antonia start school together?
(a) Fall 1928.
(b) Fall 1927.
(c) Fall 1930.
(d) Fall 1929.

6. Where is Sofia when Rosa and Joey bring Frankie home?
(a) School.
(b) Antonia's.
(c) Church.
(d) Her grandmother's.

7. Where does Sofia see Saul Grossman for the first time?
(a) Walking with her father.
(b) At a restaurant.
(c) Carrying something for her father.
(d) Sunday dinner.

8. How old is Frankie in Book 2 when Sofia decides she is no longer going to church?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

9. What job did Rosa's mother have?
(a) Sewing on buttons.
(b) Mending.
(c) Finishing buttonholes.
(d) Laundress.

10. How many men is it rumored that Antonia's father killed before the left Sicily?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

11. What is Rosa's oldest brother called?
(a) Legs.
(b) Thumbs.
(c) Marty.
(d) Bill.

12. When Antonia starts high school, how long has it been since her father disappeared?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 9 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 7 years.

13. What does Tommy Fianzo sometimes have Carlo spend nights doing?
(a) Transporting Cuban cigars.
(b) Transporting Canadian liquor.
(c) Laundering money.
(d) Transporting drugs.

14. From where to where does Joey have a smuggling network?
(a) Brindisi to Red Hook.
(b) La Spezia to Tivoli.
(c) Como to Rhinebeck.
(d) Treviso to Barrytown.

15. When does Lina abandon her faith?
(a) 2 weeks after Carlo's funeral.
(b) 4 weeks after Carlo's funeral.
(c) 6 weeks after Carlo's funeral.
(d) 8 weeks after Carlo's funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the drive on the first day that Antonia and Sofia start high school?

2. What does Antonia dream her occupation will be when she is 16?

3. How does a Romani family pay Joey to buy their passage?

4. After Frankie is born, what does Sofia's father often give her when he sneaks into her room when he comes home late?

5. How old are Sofia and Antoinia when they sneak out to a dance in a church basement?

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