View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three holy laws Saladin challenges Melchisedech to name as the one with the most truths?
(a) the law of the Jews, Saracens, or Christians.
(b) the law of the church, the state, or the royalty.
(c) the law of the Christians, the Jews, or the Hindus.
(d) the law of Nature, of the Gods, or the Professors.

2. What does Giannotto di Civigni want to do?
(a) go into business with his friend, Abraham.
(b) become a Jew like his friend, Abraham.
(c) convert his Jewish friend, Abraham, to Christianity.
(d) visit his friend, Abraham, in Jerusalem.

3. What does Ghismunda do with Guiscardo's heart?
(a) she mixes it with poison herbs, takes it, and dies.
(b) she hides it under her bed.
(c) she keeps it in a silver box in her room.
(d) she buries it under a rose bush.

4. Why does Saladin go to Melchisedech?
(a) he is a Jewish money lender.
(b) he is a high priest.
(c) he is a wise fortune teller.
(d) he has a map of great treasure.

5. Why does Ghismunda not marry at a time when other girls her age have taken husbands?
(a) She is homely and the men do not consider her.
(b) She is caring for her father, Tancredi, in his old age.
(c) Her father refuses to look for a husband for her.
(d) She never accepts the men her father brings home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Abraham observe on his trip?

2. What causes the women of Alibech's town to laugh when she returns after the deaths of her family members?

3. What is the discovery of Saladin, the Sultan of Babylon?

4. How many men actually had Alatiel before she was married?

5. Eventually, who does Ghismunda marry as arranged by her father?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 380 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample