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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Spaniards keep doing about their situation?

2. Where does Cosimo send three French soldiers who have come through the woods?

3. When does Cosimo arrive in Olivabassa?

4. What does Cosimo see hope for in his dream?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cosimo die?

2. What army show up in chapter twenty-eight and who is almost arrested by them?

3. Who does Cosimo meet at the Spaniard community that answers his need for love? What happens between them?

4. What results from Cosimo convincing Sulpico that he is a Freemason?

5. When does Cosimo arrive in Olivabassa and what does he become there?

6. How does Cosimo spend his time after the army shows up?

7. What does Biagio say when he reflects on the ideals he and his brother had as youth?

8. Who does Cosimo go to see in Olivabassa, and what does he find there?

9. Where does the girl get her first glimpse of Cosimo and what does she do?

10. What is written about Cosimo's love life in chapter nineteen and how is it described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Biagio wants all the more to assure Cosimo of his loyalty despite his remaining on the ground, and so agrees to supply him with everything he requires to set up a more permanent dwelling in the trees.

1. Why do you think Biagio is not joining his brother in the trees? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Do you think Biagio is right or wrong for making it easier for his brother to remain in the trees? Why or why not?

3. What do you think of Cosimo's attempts to pressure his younger brother into helping him?

Essay Topic 2

In the trees, he and the boys are quite able to exist as equals, on the ground the boys return to sad, filthy places to be scolded and beaten by mothers who refuse to feed them if they have not been able to steal enough to feed themselves. This is the beginning of social awareness in young Cosimo.

1. How do you think Cosimo's beliefs about the world changes when he follows the boys home? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Why do you think a rich boy like Cosimo has never seen or known how poor people live? Do you think this situation exist today? Why or why not?

3. How do you think wealthy people in the United States might change if they lived in the poorer part of town for a year?

Essay Topic 3

The most valuable lesson Cosimo learns from the eccentric recluse, the Cavalier, is the importance of guarding himself against the loneliness to which his recent trend toward isolation might possibly lead.

1. Why do you think Cosimo might learn this lesson from the Cavalier? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. How are the Cavalier and Cosimo similar and dissimilar in their interactions with other people? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. In what ways do you think loneliness would happen in Cosimo's life?

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