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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Peronella's lover do while she supervises her husband?
(a) looks for his underwear.
(b) uses her position to pleasure them both.
(c) eats some of Peronella's apple pie.
(d) runs out of the house and disappears.

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

3. After the death of her husband, where does Monna Giovanna take her son?
(a) to the country near Frederigo's farm.
(b) on an extended trip.
(c) to live with his grandfather.
(d) to the south of Italy.

4. After Tingoccio dies, what does he do that he had promised Meuccio in life?
(a) haunt Meuccio's wife.
(b) show himself to the evil monk in the village.
(c) return to tell what it is like after death.
(d) return to light candles in the church.

5. What does Caterina beg her parents to allow her to do?
(a) to sleep under an arbor in the garden.
(b) to sleep on the balcony outside her bedroom.
(c) to sleep in a room by herself.
(d) to sleep in another part of the house.

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

7. With whom does Caterina fall in love?
(a) Juan Carlos da Vinci, a cousin of Lizio di Valbona.
(b) Ricciardo Manardi da Brettinoro, an enemy of Lizio di Valbona.
(c) Ricciardo Manardi da Brettinoro, a friend of Lizio di Valbona.
(d) Berto della Massa, a notorious liar.

8. How does Rabatta insult Bondone?
(a) by saying that he should paint his face to hide the ugly.
(b) by saying he is so ugly a mirror breaks when he looks in.
(c) by saying it is good that he is not an artist's model.
(d) by saying a look at him and no one would guess he is an artist.

9. What promise does Brother Onion make to the villagers this time?
(a) to show them a relic of the cross.
(b) to show them frakincense and myrrh.
(c) to show them a feather from the wings of Gabriel.
(d) to show them how to walk on water.

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

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

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

13. What is the name of the Brother from the monastery of St. Anthony that is the same as the name of a vegetable?
(a) Brother Kale.
(b) Brother Endive.
(c) Brother Carrot.
(d) Brother Onion.

14. Where does Peronella tell her lover to hide?
(a) behind the door.
(b) in the closet.
(c) under the bed.
(d) in a barrel.

15. When Calandrino finds what he thinks are magic stones, how do his friends play a trick on him?
(a) they pretend that he is invisible.
(b) they pretend that he can read their minds.
(c) they pretend that he knows the future.
(d) they pretend that he has super human strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Frederigo leave the city for his farm?

2. What is the relationship between Tingoccio Mini and Meuccio di Tura?

3. What do the other nuns expect the abbess to do to the nun with a lover?

4. When Rabatta and Bondone meet on the road to Florence, what happens to cause them to seek shelter?

5. Why is the marquis displeased with his son?

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