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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ranuccio do after releasing Bianca in the woods?
(a) He got married and then his wife died.
(b) He travelled across the sea.
(c) He left Montefiore.
(d) He joined the army.

2. According to the dwarves, when did the eighth dwarf disappear?
(a) A year ago.
(b) When Vicente left Montefiore.
(c) Last spring.
(d) The previous day.

3. Who is Michelotto's father?
(a) Cesare.
(b) Prince Dschem.
(c) Fra Ludovico.
(d) Vicente.

4. What is Lucrezia overjoyed by in "The Heart of the Matter"?
(a) The news that she will become the new head of Italy.
(b) The news that Bianca is awake.
(c) The news that she is pregnant.
(d) The prospect of supreme knowledge and immortality.

5. What is Lucrezia floating in in "The Heart of the Matter"?
(a) A gondola.
(b) A bathtub.
(c) The open sea.
(d) A hot air balloon.

6. What do the dwarves grant Michelotto permission to do in "Fire and Ivy"?
(a) Tell Lucrezia about its existence.
(b) Open Bianca's glass coffin.
(c) Have the coffin moved.
(d) Take BIanca out of the coffin.

7. Who allowed Ranuccio to leave the monastery?
(a) The abbot.
(b) Himself.
(c) God.
(d) His father.

8. Where is Bianca's coffin placed?
(a) In the woods in Tuscany.
(b) At the top of a mountain in Umbria.
(c) In a treehouse in Lazio.
(d) In a valley in Marche.

9. What does Vicente see on the branch in "A Beast in the Wall"?
(a) Three ripe apples.
(b) A drop of blood.
(c) Two pairs of carved initials.
(d) A blossoming blue and white flower.

10. Why does it take some time for the dwarves to notice the unconscious Bianca in "The Oval Window"?
(a) Bianca is hidden in a closet.
(b) They are preoccupied with deciding where to hang the mirror.
(c) Bianca is underneath a blanket.
(d) The dwarves are not able to easily notice something that does not move.

11. What does Lucrezia think the creature accompanying Vicente resembles?
(a) A malnourished goat.
(b) A deformed camel.
(c) A drowned rat.
(d) A headless dog.

12. What do the dwarves tell Bianca they would like returned to them in "The Dwarves"?
(a) Their money.
(b) Their dignity.
(c) The mirror.
(d) Montefiore.

13. Who does Vicente observe looking at Bianca's coffin in "Vigil"?
(a) A group of little people and a boulder.
(b) Lucrezia.
(c) A hunter.
(d) Seven small men and a dog.

14. What does Heartless try to dissuade Bianca from doing in "A Hole in the World"?
(a) Returning to Montefiore.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Going to Rome.
(d) Staying at the dwarves' home.

15. What does Lucrezia decide to poison Bianca with in "Two Bites from the Apple"?
(a) A poisoned knife.
(b) An apple from the branch of the Tree of Knowledge.
(c) Primavera's fig pudding that Bianca used to love.
(d) A tonic made of apples and ginger beer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the father of Lucrezia's second child in "Thais" die?

2. What does the dwarves' house not have?

3. What stops Bianca from thinking she is dreaming in "The Dwarves"?

4. What is Lucrezia's relationship to the father of this second child in "Thais"?

5. Who returns to Montefiore with Bianca in "Montefiore"?

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