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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does he explain the charcoal?
(a) that it is a relic of the destruction of Sodom.
(b) that it is a relic from the destruction of Jerusalem.
(c) that it is a relic of St. Lorenzo who was burned at the stake.
(d) that it is a relic from a fire where Jesus warmed his hands.

2. What does the foolish Alibech think she is doing when she allows the monk to have his way with her?
(a) taking the lust out of Rustico's devil.
(b) putting Rustico's devil into her hell.
(c) keeping the devil from leaving Rustico's cell.
(d) hiding the devil from Rustico's hell.

3. Where does the first holy man send Alibech?
(a) to a holy man who is paralyzed from the waist down.
(b) to a blind holy man who will not be tempted by her beauty.
(c) to a married holy man who will look on Alibech as a daughter.
(d) to a holy man who is supposedly more learned than the first.

4. What tragedy befalls Alatiel?
(a) she is sold by her brothers for a great price.
(b) she is shipwrecked off the island of Majorca.
(c) she is captured by pirates on the high seas.
(d) she is betrothed to an ugly old king.

5. What is the passion of Frederigo, a man of noble birth who squanders his fortune for the love of Monna Giovanna?
(a) a prize falcon.
(b) a fabulous steed.
(c) a prize bull.
(d) a herd of prize sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the monk take a woman?

2. How does Alatiel manage to marry the King of Algarve after all?

3. What do the nuns begin to do with Masetto?

4. Who determines who will tell the stories on each successive night?

5. What do Messer Forese da Rabatta and Giotto di Bondone have in common with the Baronci family?

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