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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Saul Grossman grow up?
(a) Hamburg.
(b) Munich.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Cologne.

2. How old is Paolo when he and Antonia meet?
(a) 20.
(b) 19.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

3. What neighborhood do Sofia and Antonia live in?
(a) Park Slope.
(b) Brooklyn Heights.
(c) Cobble Hill.
(d) Red Hook.

4. What does Antonia dream her occupation will be when she is 16?
(a) History professor.
(b) Classics professor.
(c) French professor.
(d) Writer.

5. When Joey, Rosa, Sofia, Lina, and Antonia return from the ocean, what does Rosa make to eat?
(a) Pasta Carbonara.
(b) Minestrone.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Manicotti.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book 1, how many nights a week is Antonia's father often gone?

2. What does Tommy Fianzo sometimes have Carlo spend nights doing?

3. When do Sofia and Antonia start school together?

4. How many other Jews travel on an ocean liner with Saul Grossman?

5. At the beginning of Book 1, how old are Antonia and Sofia's mothers?

Short Essay Questions

1. As businessmen, why are the men of the Family intrigued about the war?

2. What conversations do Sofia and Antonia have each week before the dinners, and what are they thinking to themselves?

3. What rituals does Antonia perform the evening before she begins high school?

4. What happens to Carlo?

5. How did Joey begin to work for Tommy Fianzo?

6. What does Tommy tell Joey about Carlo's disappearance?

7. How do Antonia and Sofia live?

8. How did Carlo come to work for Tommy Fianzo?

9. What are Sofia's thoughts during the last months of high school?

10. What smuggling empire does Joey Colicchio coordinate during the war?

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