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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ida allow Useppe to wander freely with Bella?
(a) She feels that their neighborhood is safe enough.
(b) She wants to have the time alone.
(c) She wants him to be like other boys.
(d) She feels that he is smart enough not to get into trouble.

2. Where is Davide Segre's family home?
(a) Mantua.
(b) Rome.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Nice.

3. Why does Nino respect Davide?
(a) For his service to his country and people.
(b) For his courage and bravery.
(c) For his thinking and philosophizing.
(d) For his cunning and street-smarts.

4. How old is Scimo?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

5. Why does the doctor feel, in the last chapter, that neither Useppe nor Ida has long to live?
(a) He saw the goodbyes in their eyes.
(b) He knew that they both had terminal illnesses.
(c) He saw how weak and malnourished they were.
(d) He knew that the German army was advancing their way.

6. Where does Ida spend the last nine years of her life?
(a) In her apartment.
(b) With a relative.
(c) In an asylum.
(d) In a nursing home.

7. Who murders Santina?
(a) Her customer.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her pimp.
(d) Her son.

8. What is the name of Nino's second dog?
(a) Beast.
(b) Blitz.
(c) Belsen.
(d) Bella.

9. Where does Davide deliver his lecture in 1947?
(a) A college.
(b) A tavern.
(c) His home.
(d) A military barracks.

10. Scimo admits, to Useppe, that he escaped from what?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A reformatory.
(c) A kidnapping.
(d) A sanitarium.

11. How many of the thousand Jews who left Tiburtina returned in 1945?
(a) Twenty-six.
(b) A hundred.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Forty-seven.

12. A pact was formed, in 1947, between which two entities?
(a) The Nazi party and the USSR.
(b) The USSR and the Fascist Italian regime.
(c) The Fascist Italian regime and the Vatican.
(d) The Vatican and the Nazi party.

13. Who is Ninuccia?
(a) Patrizia's baby.
(b) Useppe's imaginary friend.
(c) Ida's niece.
(d) Nino's half-sister.

14. Nino is very proud of what possession in 1946?
(a) A color television.
(b) An expensive radio.
(c) A motorcycle.
(d) A nice car.

15. How does Useppe react when Nino is with his girlfriend under the tree?
(a) He asks a lot of questions about what they're doing.
(b) He becomes distraught.
(c) He is not phased, as he is used to it.
(d) He thinks it is funny, and wants to watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what medical condition does Useppe begin to suffer in 1946?

2. Ida refuses to allow the doctor to perform what test on Useppe?

3. According to Davide, who was the ultimate anarchist?

4. What does Davide tell Useppe, when Useppe visits Davide at his home for the first time?

5. Davide Segre is the real name of which member of the revolutionary band?

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