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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. What friendship does Monna Giovanna's son strike up in the country?
(a) with Frederico.
(b) with Fernando.
(c) with Giovanni.
(d) with Falco.
2. How does the wayward nun respond to the abbess' reprimand?
(a) she is immediately contrite.
(b) she hides her face in shame.
(c) she dies suddenly.
(d) she is unrepentant.
3. Who discovers the two lovers the next morning in their compromising situation?
(a) Caterina's mother.
(b) Messer Lizio di Valbona.
(c) Caterina's brother.
(d) the butler.
4. What does Caterina beg her parents to allow her to do?
(a) to sleep in a room by herself.
(b) to sleep on the balcony outside her bedroom.
(c) to sleep in another part of the house.
(d) to sleep under an arbor in the garden.
5. What is the passion of Frederigo, a man of noble birth who squanders his fortune for the love of Monna Giovanna?
(a) a fabulous steed.
(b) a prize bull.
(c) a herd of prize sheep.
(d) a prize falcon.
Short Answer Questions
1. What poses a problem for the two men who plan to play a trick on Brother Onion?
2. What does Caterina say she wants to hear at night?
3. What happens when the two friends tell Brother Onion what they had done?
4. How does Peronella explain the man who is in the barrel?
5. What does Peronella's lover do while she supervises her husband?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the painters, Calandrino, Bruno, and Buffalmacco.
2. How does Don Gianni di Barolo have his way with the wife of Pietro da Tresanti while Pietro looks on?
3. What is the result of Frederigo's attempts to impress Monna Giovanna?
4. When collecting alms from a nearby village, what does Brother Onion use to get the people to give freely?
5. Explain the kind of work done by another ugly man by the name of Giotto di Bondone.
6. On the way home in the rain, what is Rabatta's insulting comment about his friend, Bondone?
7. What plan does Caterina devise in order to be with Ricciardo?
8. What does the daughter of Messer Lizio di Valbona, a rich knight, do that her father knows nothing about?
9. What does Gualtieri do to assure himself that his wife, Griselda, is a worthy woman?
10. How does Brother Onion recover when he takes the charcoal out of the box instead of the feather?
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