The Decameron | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 1

1. What is the premise of the novel that results in rounds of story telling?

2. Why does Musciatto Franzesi choose Ser Ciappelletto to handle debts and trade?

3. Where does Ser Ciappelletto find lodging in Burgundy?

4. When Ciappelletto becomes gravely ill, what do the brothers think?

5. How does Ser Ciappelletto get a priest to absolve him?

6. What results from Ser Ciappelletto's confession?

7. How does Ciappelletto's confession later hoodwink the church?

8. What does Giannotto di Civigni want to do?

9. Why does Giannotto think it is so necessary to convert Abraham?

10. Where does Abraham insist on going to find out about Christianity?

11. Who does Abraham observe...
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