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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the first things Viola and Cosimo talk about?
(a) the day of their separtion
(b) Viola's aunts
(c) the boy gang of thieves
(d) Cosimo's father

2. What does Cosimo contribute to the secret ceremonies?
(a) one honoring trees
(b) nothing
(c) one to enrich farmers
(d) one to honor the rain

3. How does Cosimo hitch a ride on a hot air balloon?
(a) a sit was lowered to him
(b) he jumped in the basket from the top of a tree
(c) grabbed the anchor rope from the trees
(d) Biagio threw him into it

4. What does Biagio think of Cosimo and the girl?
(a) he doesn't know about her
(b) they are a bad idea
(c) they are perfect together
(d) they need to know each other better

5. Cosimo says love is best served when what is allowed?
(a) when it is a monogamy
(b) when the man is in charge
(c) each to remain themselves
(d) when they have children

6. What role does Cosimo slip into with the Spaniards?
(a) a protector
(b) a teacher
(c) a favorite son
(d) a bringer of revolution

7. How do the townspeople know Viola has left for a long absence?
(a) when Cosimo is in the ilex tree
(b) the dog is in the tree
(c) Cosimo quits talking
(d) they don't see her white horse

8. What does Cosimo do with the French soldiers?
(a) joins their camp
(b) gives them fleas
(c) has birds drop on them
(d) burns their gear

9. Where does Biagio go for a year?
(a) to the King's court
(b) to his sister's
(c) to a resort
(d) traveling

10. What color are Ursula's eyes?
(a) brown
(b) green
(c) amber
(d) the color of periwinkles

11. Who collects the tithes from the people?
(a) the actuary
(b) the bailiff
(c) the sheriff
(d) the noble

12. What army came in and almost arrested Battista and her husband?
(a) the Republican army
(b) the English army
(c) the Austrian army
(d) the Italian army

13. Where does Ottimo Massimo go one day after sniffing the breeze?
(a) down the river
(b) to the ocean
(c) across a meadow
(d) to an apple orchard

14. What does Viola say Cosimo's idea of love is?
(a) mixed up
(b) very narrow
(c) too loose
(d) old fashion

15. How do the Spaniards appear to Cosimo?
(a) rough and uneducated
(b) finely dressed, somber, and civilized
(c) dirty and poor
(d) disheartened

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the townspeople call Cosimo?

2. How does it seem the girls who spend the night with Cosimo feel?

3. How does Cosimo deal with the threat of the soldiers?

4. What do the girl and Cosimo decide before he leaves?

5. Biagio says Cosimo and Viola's relationship works best when?

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