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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Cosimo and Prince Andrej find they have in common?
(a) ideals by which they live
(b) liking to live in trees
(c) a great, great uncle on his father's side
(d) not having a girlfriend

2. For what does Cosimo become most famous?
(a) havin a dog in the trees
(b) telling stories
(c) killing wild animals
(d) being a baron

3. What has Cosimo told the Spaniards is his reason for staying in the trees?
(a) he has no home
(b) it's his chosen form of protest
(c) he likes living above the ground
(d) he would be arrested if he came down

4. What does Biagio wish about his and his brother's ideas they had when they were young?
(a) that Biagio would have lived in the trees
(b) that they would have been brought forward
(c) that they hadn't caused so much trouble
(d) that Viola would have had them

5. What do the girl and Cosimo decide before he leaves?
(a) that the dog can stay with her
(b) that Cosimo would visit her in a week
(c) to meet somewhere
(d) that they would marry

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

7. Why has Cosimo become known as such a great lover?
(a) he spread the story himself
(b) women talking
(c) people hearing him in the trees
(d) rumors

8. Where does Cosimo send three French soldiers who have come through the woods?
(a) to Viola's old house
(b) to bathe
(c) through the east part of the woods
(d) to his brother's house

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

10. For what reason has Cosimo found that Ottimo Massimo does not come back often?
(a) he has found a female dog
(b) he has died
(c) he stays with a widow
(d) he is being fed better at another house

11. What is Cosimo's next project after Viola leaves?
(a) planting a new orchard
(b) advocate and ambassador for the birds
(c) finding a wife
(d) writing a book

12. Why does Cosimo keep the pirate's treasure a secret?
(a) so the pirates will come back
(b) so his uncle isn't thought bad of
(c) so he can live off the food for years
(d) so the colliers will be able to take it

13. Why are the young men fleeing into the woods?
(a) to fight against the army
(b) to avoid taxes
(c) to avoid conscription
(d) to find food for their families

14. What do Cosimo and Ursula end up doing?
(a) leaving
(b) kissing
(c) getting married
(d) falling from the trees

15. Why does he help the French lay out roads?
(a) to save the farms
(b) to protect the trees
(c) for something to do
(d) for a wage

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cosimo claim to be to the group?

2. Where does Ottimo Massimo go one day after sniffing the breeze?

3. Why are the townspeople fascinated with his love life?

4. Where does Biagio go for a year?

5. What is the girl doing when Cosimo arrives at the garden?

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