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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the brothers do to Isabetta's lover?
(a) they have him transferred to Paris.
(b) they have him taken out of the city and killed.
(c) they have his put into prison.
(d) they have him tarred and feathered.

3. What does Rustico tell Alibech to do?
(a) watch as he removes his clothes.
(b) do like him and remove her clothes.
(c) lift her skirts to let him see her sin.
(d) cover her eyes while he undresses.

4. For what is Andreuccio di Pietro famous?
(a) for dealing in rare jewels.
(b) for finding lost treasure.
(c) for buying and selling horses.
(d) for knowing many kings.

5. Who determines to discover the real identity of Monna Lisetta's angel?
(a) the next door neighbors.
(b) her brothers.
(c) the abbot of the monastery.
(d) her in-laws.

6. What story does Alberto tell Monna Lisetta?
(a) that the Angel Gabriel has fallen in love with her.
(b) that the Angel Gabriel wants to speak with her.
(c) that the Angel Gabriel has been watching her undress.
(d) that the Angel Gabriel wants her to sleep with Alberto.

7. After the trouble at sea, what happens to the men who love Alatiel?
(a) most of them sell her to other men.
(b) most of them abandon her.
(c) most of them commit suicide.
(d) most of them are murdered so she can be taken.

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

9. When Abraham returns, what does he want to do that surprises Giannotto?
(a) he wants to convert to Christianity.
(b) he wants to become a monk.
(c) he wants to confront a rabbi.
(d) he wants to reaffirm his Jewish faith.

10. Where do Constanza and Alatiel go after they leave Athens?
(a) Babylon.
(b) France.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Alexandria.

11. Where does Abraham insist on going to find out about Christianity?
(a) to Jerusalem.
(b) to Antioch.
(c) to Rome.
(d) to a monastery.

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

13. What does Ghismunda do with Guiscardo's heart?
(a) she keeps it in a silver box in her room.
(b) she hides it under her bed.
(c) she mixes it with poison herbs, takes it, and dies.
(d) she buries it under a rose bush.

14. What results from Ser Ciappelletto's confession?
(a) he survives for another twenty years.
(b) he becomes thought of as a saint.
(c) he is discovered to be a liar.
(d) he is forced to give up all his wealth.

15. What does Saladin plan to do when he visits Melchisedech?
(a) to put Melchisedech under arrest and take his fortune.
(b) to trick Melchisedech into giving him money.
(c) to fall on his knees and beg from Melchisedech.
(d) to offer his daughter in marriage to Melchisedech.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the first holy man send Alibech away?

2. Who does Alibech eventually meet?

3. What does Ghismunda do when she sees her father will not look for another husband for her?

4. What is Monna Lisetta's character like?

5. How does Tancredi discover his daughter's affair with Guiscardo?

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