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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. When does the harsh song of the cicadas arrive?
(a) At the end of September.
(b) At the end of August.
(c) At the beginning of August.
(d) At the beginning of September.

2. How does the Prince respond to Calogero's appearance at the dinner?
(a) He is envious.
(b) He is not aware of it.
(c) He is angered by it.
(d) He is relieved.

3. What is the Prince trying to talk Tancredi out of in Chapter 1, Part 2?
(a) Associating with the rebels.
(b) Selling all of his property.
(c) Associating with the King.
(d) Making a bad investment.

4. What stories is Tancredi telling Angelica after the dinner?
(a) Stories about the property he owns.
(b) Stories about the revolutionary battles he observed.
(c) Stories about his business decisions and wealth.
(d) Stories about the revolutionary battles he was in.

5. Who is Paolo?
(a) The Prince's son.
(b) The Prince's cousin.
(c) The Prince's nephew.
(d) The Prince's friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Prince doing at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. Who discovered the convent that the Prince is visiting?

3. What happened to the soldier that the Prince is remembering?

4. Who is in Palermo that the Prince is going to visit?

5. What is the Prince doing when Pirrone interrupts in Chapter 2, Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What letter does the Prince receive at the end of Chapter 1, Part 2, and what is his response to it?

2. What is the Prince doing as Pirrone interrupts him in Chapter 2, Part 2, and how does Pirrone react?

3. What is interesting about the way the Prince and Tancredi react to Angelica at the dinner?

4. What is the Plebiscite of Unification, and how does the Prince vote on it?

5. How is the Prince compromising parts of his life, and what analogy is made for his situation in Chapter 3, Part 1?

6. What notion does Tancredi introduce to the Prince in the second part of Chapter 1, and how does the Prince respond?

7. How is the Prince's office decorated and what is his opinion of it?

8. What is the reasoning used by Tancredi to justify his desire to marry Angelica in his letters to the Prince?

9. How is the garden described in Chapter 1?

10. What is the tradition of the convent that the Prince visits and the Salina family?

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