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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. What does the Soncini family return to after Iacopo is released from jail?
(a) Messy house
(b) Blood on the floor of their home
(c) Dead children
(d) A note from the Germans

2. Where does Schramm finally lie down in order to begin to recuperate from his illness?
(a) Mountain cave
(b) Hayloft
(c) A tent
(d) Stone floor

3. Who is the one-armed son who is not taken off to war to fight with the Army?
(a) Pierino
(b) Signor
(c) Santino
(d) Santiago

4. What does Claudette leave in return for the gifts she and her father find on the flat rock?
(a) Stones
(b) Money
(c) Flowers
(d) Notes

5. Who admits that he/she marched in an anti-war demonstration that helped oust Mussolini from power while Renzo was in jail?
(a) Santiano
(b) Loeb
(c) Lidia
(d) Tomitz

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was impregnated by her uncle and then she eventually married him?

2. What is Osvaldo unable to do when he hears the confession of Schramm?

3. Who had arranged for Schramm's escape as a symbolic repayment to someone he might have killed in the past?

4. Of what military group was Renzo once part of?

5. Renzo decides to apply as a ________ for the Dairy Association as a way to help out.

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of mother was Klara Hitler to her son, Adolf Hitler?

2. What appears outside of the hut where the Blums are hiding, much to their surprise?

3. What are some of the things that Adolf is afraid of at the beginning of the manuscript which may have led to his own sense of purity?

4. What does Catarina Dolcino confess to Don Osvaldo that seems "funny" to him?

5. When Duno comes looking for Leto Girotti, what do Renzo and Osvaldo tell Duno to do?

6. Describe who Pierino is.

7. Why did the bells at the church suddenly begin to ring?

8. Describe the former life of the Brosslers.

9. When Pierino stutters, what does Leto say in order to make him feel better about it?

10. Why isn't Battista Goletta able to help the Brosslers in hiding from the Germans?

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