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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 conference was held for the purposes of "racial planning"?
(a) The Aryan Conference.
(b) The Geneva Conference.
(c) The Nazi Conference.
(d) The Wannsee Conference.

2. What does Ida name her second son?
(a) Useppe.
(b) Ninuzzu.
(c) Nino.
(d) Alfio.

3. How does Carlo respond when encouraged to join the armed revolution?
(a) He quietly and composedly agrees to go with them.
(b) He states that violence is against his ideals.
(c) He gets excited, and decides to join them.
(d) He politely declines without stating his reasons.

4. Why is Carlo useless as a fighter?
(a) He doesn't know enough about the techniques.
(b) He drinks too much.
(c) He can't control his temper.
(d) He is afraid of everything.

5. Why does Nino ignore the alarms and sirens going off in the city?
(a) Because he feels sure that Rome is safe.
(b) Because he thinks the stories of what is happening to the Jews are exagerrated.
(c) Because he doesn't understand what they mean.
(d) Because he thinks they are only drills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chiang Kai-Shek was made the commander of Allied troops in what country, in 1942?

2. Nino's friend Quattropunte is named for his skill with what?

3. How does Ida react when Nino steals food?

4. What is Filomena's profession?

5. What nation did Italy and Germany cooperatively attack, in 1941?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author set the stage for the novel's action, in the first chapter?

2. How does Italy's government change in 1943?

3. What happens when the monk arrives at the shelter?

4. What does Carlo tell Nino about his past, when they first meet?

5. What was the situation of the Jews in 1938?

6. What happens when Gunther goes into Remo's in the first chapter?

7. What ultimately happens to Ida's parents?

8. What does Nino do for his little brother when Useppe is very young?

9. Why does Nino quit school?

10. What news does Remo bring Ida, regarding Nino and the other revolutionaries, at the beginning of 1944?

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