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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through January.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After duly investigating the Forza Italia! political movement, Lewis returns to his car to find how many men waiting for him?
(a) 2.
(b) 25.
(c) 15.
(d) 50.

2. When Lewis winds up in the American Evacuation Hospital he is ill with a re-infection of which of the following illnesses?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Cholera.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Typhus.

3. An informant, Prince A, visits the soldiers with his 24-year old sister to ask if they can arrange for her to enter an army brothel; what is the girl's name?
(a) Luisa.
(b) Carlotta.
(c) Mila.
(d) Giovanni.

4. While investigating the charges against the man arrested by the police chief, Lewis compares another witness--Anna Consomata--to an angel by which famous Italian artist?
(a) Da Vinci.
(b) Giotto.
(c) Michelangelo.
(d) Botticelli.

5. In the October 24, 1943 entry Lewis is sent to deal with a young German boy set to be executed as a spy. What is the young boy's name?
(a) Posilippo.
(b) Tobruk.
(c) Frazer.
(d) Sauro.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Lewis' time in the American Evacuation Hospital, he is frequently disturbed by what noise a few hundred yards away?

2. After Lewis gives a hungry man some K rations he receives a strip of cloth that the giver insists will render him bulletproof; from what city did this cloth originate?

3. In the October 9, 1943 entry Lewis says that children in Naples are prying limpets off rocks for food. How much can the children collect in exchange for a pint of limpets?

4. As Lewis passes through Naples on his way back to his unit after his illness, what does he say is the general mood of the Italian civilians?

5. Upon his return to Naples to find sick section members, Lewis says that he is also ill with which of the following?

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