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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Alatiel manage to marry the King of Algarve after all?
(a) she promises to produce a male heir.
(b) she convinces the King of Algarve that she is still a virgin.
(c) her father, the sultan, triples her dowry.
(d) she keeps her secrets from everyone.

2. Why does Constanzo leave the battle and return to the duke's house?
(a) he comes to protect the women and children.
(b) he changes his mind about fighting.
(c) he has fallen in love with Alatiel.
(d) he becomes deathly ill.

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

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

5. What does Alibech find surprising?
(a) that serving God is so pleasurable.
(b) that using her hell does not hurt her.
(c) that Rustico's Devil keeps coming back.
(d) that the Devil cannot enter her hell very often.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes the place of the prince and seeks revenge on the duke?

2. How does the monk trick the abbot?

3. Tiring of Monna Lisetta's vain confessions, what does Brother Alberto do?

4. Why does Saladin go to Melchisedech?

5. Who determines who will tell the stories on each successive night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What eventually transpires between Masetto and one of the nuns?

2. Who takes Andreuccio into a scheme to make easy money?

3. What bothers Brother Alberto about one of the women who comes to him for confession?

4. Why does Isabetta cry over a pot of basil?

5. What is the ambition of Alibech and where does it take her?

6. What happens to Alatiel after she is taken to safety?

7. Why is it so easy for Berto della Massa to take on the persona of Brother Alberto, a minor friar?

8. What do the brothers think when they hear Ciappelletto's confession?

9. Why does Andreuccio di Pietro travel to Naples?

10. What do the village women tell Alibech after she explains how she put the devil back into hell with Rustico.

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