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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the road, how do Rabatta and Bondone dress?
(a) as magistrates.
(b) as penniless peasants.
(c) as knights.
(d) as traveling jesters.

2. How does Ricciardo avoid being killed for his transgression?
(a) he agrees to marry Caterina.
(b) he agrees to pay a bag of gold.
(c) he pretends that he has lost him memory.
(d) he jumps naked from the balcony and runs away.

3. What does Don Gianni di Barolo have that shows his wealth?
(a) a donkey to transport his goods.
(b) a servant to transport his goods.
(c) a mare to transport his goods.
(d) a wagon to transport his goods.

4. What euphemism does the story teller use for "the thing you are ashamed to mention among men?"
(a) the branch.
(b) the flower.
(c) the bower.
(d) the nightingale.

5. When does Peronella's lover come to visit her?
(a) on the days her husband goes to the next village.
(b) in the daytime when her husband is at work.
(c) at night after her husband falls asleep.
(d) when Peronella gives sleeping powder to her husband.

6. Who are Don Gianni di Barolo and Pietro da Tresanti?
(a) brothers-in-law.
(b) competitors for the same lover.
(c) bankers who extort money from the poor.
(d) businessmen who deal in trading goods.

7. What does Caterina say she wants to hear at night?
(a) the crickets.
(b) the breeze in the trees.
(c) the troubadors.
(d) the nightingale.

8. What does Peronella do shortly after her marriage?
(a) she buys a new house.
(b) she takes a lover.
(c) she opens a shop.
(d) she collects and sells barrels.

9. What happens when Ricciardo learns of Caterina's love for him?
(a) Caterina plays hard to get.
(b) Caterina and Ricciardo begin an affair.
(c) Caterina and Ricciardo elope to Venice.
(d) Ricciardo asks for her hand in marriage.

10. As they travel along, what do Rabatta and Bondone begin to do?
(a) discuss their respective businesses.
(b) sing songs to keep up their courage.
(c) play a guessing game.
(d) insult each other about their looks.

11. How are Peronella and her lover surprised one afternoon?
(a) Peronella's husband sends his friend to see her.
(b) Peronella's husband comes to spy on her.
(c) Peronella's husband has an accident at work.
(d) Peronella's husband comes home unexpectedly.

12. What do the simple-minded Pietro and his wife want Don Gianni to do?
(a) cast a spell to enlarge their house.
(b) cast a spell that will turn the wife into a mare.
(c) turn their donkey into a mare.
(d) teach them how to cast spells.

13. When Gualtieri finally marries, what does he decide to do?
(a) test his wife to see if she is faithful.
(b) lock his wife away in a tower.
(c) kill his wife and marry a young girl.
(d) share his wife with his cousin.

14. What is Peronella's occupation?
(a) a stone mason.
(b) an innkeeper.
(c) a seamstress.
(d) a spinner of wool.

15. What suddenly happens to Monna Giovanna's son?
(a) he runs away to the city.
(b) he commits a crime.
(c) he falls in love with a farm girl.
(d) he becomes ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the two men who played the trick go the next day?

2. What do the men leave in Brother Onion's room?

3. How does Frederigo waste his fortune?

4. What is the Baronci family of Florence noted for?

5. How do Gualtieri and his wife get back together?

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