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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the premise of the novel that results in rounds of story telling?
(a) 7 women and 3 children are banished from Florence society.
(b) 7 women and 7 men go on holiday together.
(c) 7 men and 3 young women leave Rome to escape the plague.
(d) 7 young women and 3 men leave Florence to escape the plague.

2. When Rabatta and Bondone meet on the road to Florence, what happens to cause them to seek shelter?
(a) a high wind begins to blow.
(b) the night falls suddenly.
(c) highwaymen are spotted.
(d) it starts to rain.

3. What name does Alberto give Monna Lisetta that indicates how bright she is?
(a) Lady Genius.
(b) Lady Copernicus.
(c) Lady Halfwit
(d) Lady Quickwit.

4. When the weather does not change, what do Rabatta and Bondone decide to do?
(a) continue their trek.
(b) rent a carriage.
(c) go back the way they came.
(d) stay the night.

5. What do the two men who know Brother Onion plan to do?
(a) slip into his room and steal the feather.
(b) exchange the white feather for a black one.
(c) glue the lid shut on the box containing the feather.
(d) exchange the feather for a turkey feather.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the road, how do Rabatta and Bondone dress?

2. What promise does Brother Onion make to the villagers this time?

3. How does Ciappelletto's confession later hoodwink the church?

4. When Calandrino finds what he thinks are magic stones, how do his friends play a trick on him?

5. What does Pietro end up with that is worth more than the money he lost?

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