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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Schramm now understands how people cling to one small ____________ of life as long as they can.
(a) piece
(b) thread
(c) taste
(d) moment

2. Why was Schramm's sister institutionalized by her family when she was a child?
(a) Encephalitis
(b) She wasn't institutionalized
(c) Lost eyes
(d) Paranoia

3. Who is Duno looking for when he enters the town, having heard of him in other areas?
(a) Renzo
(b) Claudette
(c) Leto
(d) Osvaldo

4. What does Tomitz offer to give the rabbi and his family after telling them to leave town?
(a) Money
(b) Baptismal certificates
(c) Clothing
(d) Maps

5. Who has a wooden leg and is known as the Red Priest?
(a) Renzo
(b) Tomitz
(c) Pierino
(d) Don Leto

6. Where have Claudette and Albert been hiding for the last week?
(a) The stone hut of the local doctor
(b) A tree
(c) Charcoal maker's shack
(d) The mountainside

7. Schramm wants to know if _________ go to heaven if they are too young or unable to reach a state of reason.
(a) humans
(b) children
(c) women
(d) animals

8. Where is Angelo put in order to keep him safe from the Germans, though Angelo just thinks he is being punished for being mean to his sister?
(a) A stone hut
(b) A new family's home
(c) Catholic boarding school
(d) The attic

9. What does Iacopo admit to Mirella when they return home after Iacopo is released from jail?
(a) He is too tired to fight anymore
(b) He is not a Jew
(c) He is having an affair
(d) He wants a baby boy

10. Who was impregnated by her uncle and then she eventually married him?
(a) Claudette Blum
(b) Adele Hitler
(c) Klara Hitler
(d) Karla Hitler

11. Who is the young accomplice who tempts the German soldiers with her short skirt and her tight shirt?
(a) Maria Avani
(b) Lidia Leoni
(c) Claudette Blum
(d) Adele Toselli

12. Who will not leave Albert Blum behind when he becomes ill?
(a) Frieda Brossler
(b) Tomitz
(c) Loeb
(d) Santino

13. Who are now being forced into service in the German army and factories?
(a) Italian children
(b) Italian males
(c) Italian women
(d) No one

14. Who is now caring for Schramm, nursing him back to health?
(a) Santini
(b) Mirella Soncini
(c) Claudette
(d) Albert Blum

15. Why is the answer to #14 in the area of Porto Sant'Andrea?
(a) Funeral
(b) Stationed there
(c) Two-week leave
(d) Wedding

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Santino pray furiously to in order to help the group find a place to stay?

2. What does Don Osvaldo hear from Catarina Dolcino?

3. Schramm recalls how the _________ of the world romanticized illness and fainting.

4. What does Schramm fall to the ground with after his confession?

5. What person of the Bible also spoke with a "halt of tongue" according to Leto?

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