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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 is the wild wife punished?
(a) She is put in prison.
(b) She is hanged.
(c) She is returned to her husband.
(d) She is heavily fined.

2. What does the woman in Story Fifty-four do when she sees her husband kissing someone?
(a) Yells.
(b) Vomits.
(c) Laughs.
(d) Faints.

3. Why does an apothecary's wife give him medicine?
(a) To make him live longer.
(b) To make him love her.
(c) To cure his cough.
(d) To kill him.

4. What does the lord call the item attached to his cloak in Story Fifty-seven?
(a) A token.
(b) All of these.
(c) A reminder.
(d) A tribute.

5. What does the Friar in Story Forty-eight do after tricking a new bride?/
(a) Leaves town.
(b) Lies about his actions.
(c) Builds onto the church.
(d) Kills the girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is placed on the soldier's forehead in Story Sixty-five?

2. What does the President's wife eat before she dies?

3. Why does the President in Story Thirty-six ignore his wife's affair?

4. Who gets the nun pregnant?

5. Who tells the story of Brimbaudier?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the monk in the last story cover his sin?

2. Why does Jean Pierre's lover finally accept his advances?

3. What does the wife in Story Fifty-five do to get around a stipulation in her husband's will?

4. How does the lady in Story Fifty-nine get her husband to take her to court in style?

5. What does the man who loves Francoise do for her?

6. What does the man in Story Forty-four do when he is told that the church was founded on foolishness?

7. Why does the man in Dagoucin's seventh story get out of attending a dinner party with the King?

8. Why did the lady in Parlamente's seventh tale reject a suitor?

9. What is the story of the Countess about?

10. What does the woman in Saffredent's fifth story do to stop her husband from kissing the maids?

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