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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. While Peronella's husband is inside cleaning the barrel, what is Peronella doing?
(a) trying to think where her lover will get the money.
(b) bending over the barrel to supervise.
(c) rushing her lover out of the house.
(d) scolding her husband for leaving work.

2. What poses a problem for the two men who plan to play a trick on Brother Onion?
(a) his door is locked and there is no window.
(b) his servant who guards the room.
(c) there are a group of monks standing outside his door.
(d) they do not know which room is his.

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

4. What do two men who know Brother Onion well suspect?
(a) that he has run out of stories to tell.
(b) that he is going to work a miracle.
(c) that he does not really have a feather to show.
(d) that he is trying to trick the villagers.

5. How does Frederigo waste his fortune?
(a) on jewels and gifts to impress Monna Giovanna.
(b) on jousts and other things to impress Monna Giovanna.
(c) on travel to exotic places to impress Monna Giovanna.
(d) on elaborate parties to impress Monna Giovanna.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what crime does Tingoccio tell Meuccio that there is no real punishment?

2. What does Messer Lizio di Valbona tell his wife Caterina's hand was wrapped around when he found them?

3. With whom does Tingoccio have an affair?

4. What does Monna Giovanna determine to do?

5. What retort does the wayward nun have for the abbess?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brother Onion recover when he takes the charcoal out of the box instead of the feather?

2. What unusual thing causes Peronella and her lover to look for a place to hide him?

3. When Calandrino finds what he thinks are magic rocks, what do Bruno and Buffalmacco decide to do.

4. What is the result of a man sneaking into an Abbess' cell after he has fallen in love with her?

5. How does Don Gianni di Barolo have his way with the wife of Pietro da Tresanti while Pietro looks on?

6. What does the daughter of Messer Lizio di Valbona, a rich knight, do that her father knows nothing about?

7. How does Peronella turn the situation around and get her husband inside the barrel.

8. How does the affair between Caterina and Ricciardo work itself out?

9. On the way home in the rain, what is Rabatta's insulting comment about his friend, Bondone?

10. Besides his homely countenance, describe what Messer Forese da Rabatta is noted for.

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