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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cosimo's mother want to know about his teams?
(a) if they obey him
(b) if they feed him
(c) if they're armed and doing maneuvers
(d) if they want to live in the trees with him

2. What does Cosimo's mother decide about him staying in the trees?
(a) becomes quite proud of her son
(b) she climbs in the trees herself
(c) she disowns him
(d) she makes him a pillow

3. Why can Cosimo move from tree to tree?
(a) they are mature and grow close together
(b) there are zip lines between the trees
(c) there are rope bridges
(d) Cosimo can jump long distances

4. What does Cosimo's family celebrate with a big affair?
(a) Cosimo's birthday
(b) Battista's engagement
(c) the return of the king
(d) his parents anniversary

5. What does Cosimo's father yell out to him at dinner?
(a) if he doesn't come down he will starve
(b) he is forgiven
(c) he will be sent to prison
(d) Biagio will be confined to the house

6. What does the Cavalier notice when watching Cosimo in the trees?
(a) his tent house
(b) his system for collecting water
(c) his homemade clothes
(d) his dog in the tree with him

7. Why is Cosimo's father so upset about him being gone?
(a) he wanted him to be the next Baron
(b) he thinks he's too young
(c) he's going to be arrested for child abuse
(d) his wife is upset with him for yelling at Cosimo

8. What is Cosimo learning from the people below him?
(a) how to ride a horse
(b) new languages
(c) how to build a house
(d) how to grow food

9. What do the townspeople do when Cosimo tells them of the cave?
(a) call the army
(b) go to arrest the Cavalier
(c) tell him not to wake them up
(d) go to take the treasure

10. How does Cosimo get a winter coat?
(a) he stole it
(b) his mother sent one to him
(c) Viola gave him one
(d) he made it from animals he'd killed

11. How does the family make another attempt in the afternoon to get Cosimo down?
(a) says he can eat what he wants
(b) threatens to call the police
(c) offering cake and hot chocolate
(d) the father climbs in the trees

12. Who does Viola blame for being shut up in her bedroom?
(a) the band of boys
(b) her mother
(c) Cosimo
(d) the Cavalier

13. What do Cosimo and his dog wait patiently for?
(a) animals to hunt
(b) his brother to visit
(c) Viola to come home
(d) the boys in the gang

14. What is Cosimo first to discover about the trees?
(a) they are more species than known
(b) the possible mobility trees provide
(c) they are much older than people thought
(d) they are not healthy

15. What does Cosimo suggest the Cavalier might do?
(a) bring Cosimo some food
(b) get married
(c) go to court
(d) design an irigation system

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the men from town ask Cosimo to come down?

2. How does Cosimo's family receive the news of his popularity?

3. What does the Baron do when an important family visits?

4. What does Gian de Brughi do while in hiding from the law after Cosimo rescued him?

5. Who watches Viola closely at her house?

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