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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Papa's heart race when he enters into the harbor of New York for the first time?
(a) The train station.
(b) The boat's hard entry.
(c) Ellis Island.
(d) Statue of Liberty.

2. What does Papa decline again and again, though it is said to be the key to serenity?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Communion.
(d) Prayer.

3. Who does Papa decide to thank for all of his blessings when the archbishop comes to bless the school?
(a) Ignazia.
(b) God.
(c) Prosperine.
(d) Vincenzo.

4. Who decided to abstain from the vote to move Thomas or to keep him at the center?
(a) Sheffer.
(b) Tex.
(c) Broom.
(d) Patel.

5. Who does Dominick fear will walk out on him if he ends up needing to care for Thomas?
(a) Joy.
(b) Dessa.
(c) Marie.
(d) Angie.

6. What does Ray do in response to the way the boys act in church, which Dominick shares with Patel?
(a) Drinks more.
(b) Smashes Thomas' present.
(c) Leaves the house.
(d) Calls Ma.

7. When Signora Siragusa dies, _________ is a pallbearer as he feels she was like a mother to him.
(a) Papa.
(b) Guglielmo.
(c) Dominick.
(d) Vincenzo.

8. Papa will not let the local priest _________ the girl as she was made from sin, according to his belief.
(a) Hold.
(b) Bury.
(c) See.
(d) Baptize.

9. Dessa reveals that she has started to go to __________ again after volunteering at a children's hospice.
(a) School
(b) Church.
(c) The library.
(d) Her family's house.

10. What did Thomas bruise on Sheffer, according to her appearance when she comes to visit Dominick?
(a) Her neck.
(b) Her ear.
(c) Her mouth.
(d) Her arms.

11. What did Thomas and Dominick have to do in order to go to All Saint's Mass in the morning?
(a) Not go trick or treating.
(b) Get on a bus.
(c) They had to walk with Ma and Ray.
(d) Go to bed early on Halloween.

12. The memoir goes into details about how Italian families negotiate a ___________ for their children.
(a) Marriage.
(b) Baptism.
(c) First communion.
(d) Funeral.

13. What does Dominick do that he is not supposed to do when he is visiting with Thomas?
(a) Talk to him.
(b) Hug him.
(c) Talk about him.
(d) Get angry.

14. Because Papa was able to stop ____________, he is promoted to a nighttime supervisor at Plant 2.
(a) Rising costs.
(b) A mutiny.
(c) Unionization.
(d) Pay raises.

15. What happens to the first birth that Ignazia has with Papa during their marriage?
(a) Healthy girl.
(b) Healthy boy.
(c) Stillborn girl.
(d) Stillborn boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem is Ray having with his body which is going to require a lot of healing time?

2. Where is Vincenzo shot in revenge for his sleeping with another man's wife?

3. Papa writes a letter about the passing of Vincenzo to his mother, only to find out she has died of ____________.

4. Ray admits that he is the one who is planting the mystery ____________ at the cemetery.

5. Papa offers to take both Ignazia and Prosperine into his home, though Prosperine will be the ___________.

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