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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the women of Alibech's town to laugh when she returns after the deaths of her family members?
(a) she tells them that she has a hell to hide the Devil.
(b) she tells them how she has been serving God.
(c) she tells them that she fell in love with a monk.
(d) she tells them that she met God in the desert.

2. Who does Alatiel eventually meet?
(a) the King of Cyprus who recognizes her.
(b) the King of France who recognizes her.
(c) the sultan of Brunei who recognizes her.
(d) the Prince of Wales who recognizes her.

3. Who is Alatiel's next lover after Constanzo?
(a) a general.
(b) a king.
(c) a merchant.
(d) a baron.

4. What does Rustico soon discover?
(a) that he can watch Alibech at her bath.
(b) that Alibech snores and talks in her sleep.
(c) that his willpower is not strong enough to resist Alibech.
(d) that Alibech is not as beautiful as he first thought.

5. Why is Masetto interested in the gardening job?
(a) because he has been out of work for a long time.
(b) for the freedoms it allows.
(c) because he is too ugly to work anywhere else.
(d) because he is so religious.

6. What does Giannotto di Civigni want to do?
(a) visit his friend, Abraham, in Jerusalem.
(b) become a Jew like his friend, Abraham.
(c) go into business with his friend, Abraham.
(d) convert his Jewish friend, Abraham, to Christianity.

7. Why does the abbot never punish the monk?
(a) because he feared the community would reject the monastery.
(b) because the monk caught him with a boy.
(c) because he had the woman as well.
(d) because he could not prove what the monk had done.

8. How does Monna Lisetta meet Brother Alberto?
(a) she comes to Brother Alberto to confess her sins.
(b) see meets him in the market.
(c) she hears him preach in church.
(d) she is introduced by her sister.

9. Why does the first holy man send Alibech away?
(a) she asks too many questions disturbing his meditations.
(b) she is too stupid to learn his truths.
(c) he tells her everything he has to tell.
(d) she is beautiful and he cannot trust himself around her.

10. Who does Alibech eventually find?
(a) a holy woman who lives in a cave.
(b) a holy woman who heals the sick.
(c) a holy man who lives in a hut.
(d) a holy man who teaches in a synagogue.

11. Why does Rustico agree to allow Alibech to remain with him?
(a) he is eager to test his willpower against her beauty.
(b) he is lecherous and wants to seduce her.
(c) he is eager to save her soul.
(d) he is blind and cannot see her beauty.

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

13. Who discovers what the monk is doing?
(a) the gardener.
(b) the other monks in the monastery.
(c) the abbot of the monastery.
(d) the woman's husband.

14. What does Pietro end up with that is worth more than the money he lost?
(a) a bag of silver.
(b) a gold crown.
(c) a ruby ring.
(d) a prize horse.

15. Why do the nuns keep Masetto in the convent for many years?
(a) he agrees to stay if they stop wanting sex.
(b) he fathers children the nuns say are orphans.
(c) he speaks and they think God has worked a miracle.
(d) he knows too much about their activities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Berto della Massa go to Venice and take on the identity of Brother Alberto?

2. Where does Abraham insist on going to find out about Christianity?

3. How does Isabetta learn of Lorenzo's fate?

4. Eventually, who does Ghismunda marry as arranged by her father?

5. How does Saladin honor Melchisedech?

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