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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the discovery of Saladin, the Sultan of Babylon?
(a) he has more money than he can use.
(b) his treasury is empty.
(c) his wives are wearing old clothes.
(d) his people are giving him too much respect.

2. What do the nuns do because they think Masetto is deaf?
(a) peek at him in his bath.
(b) teach him to write.
(c) poke fun at him.
(d) use sign language.

3. What causes the women of Alibech's town to laugh when she returns after the deaths of her family members?
(a) she tells them that she met God in the desert.
(b) she tells them that she fell in love with a monk.
(c) she tells them that she has a hell to hide the Devil.
(d) she tells them how she has been serving God.

4. What does Pietro end up with that is worth more than the money he lost?
(a) a ruby ring.
(b) a bag of silver.
(c) a gold crown.
(d) a prize horse.

5. How does Isabetta learn of Lorenzo's fate?
(a) a witness to his murder comes to tell her.
(b) she accidentally finds his shallow grave.
(c) an angel tells her in a dream.
(d) he comes to her in a dream.

6. When does Masetto return to his village of Lamporecchio?
(a) after a new, younger gardener arrives.
(b) after several of the nuns get pregnant.
(c) after he has finished landscaping the garden.
(d) after the death of the abbess.

7. How does the monk trick the abbot?
(a) he leaves the woman alone in his cell.
(b) he convinces the abbot he is seeing things.
(c) he lets the woman out through his window.
(d) he brings another woman for the abbot.

8. What horrible thing does Tancredi do to his daughter?
(a) he lockes her in her room until he dies.
(b) he makes her witness the beheading of Guiscardo.
(c) he chops up Guiscardo's heart and has it prepared for her.
(d) he takes away all her clothes so she cannot go outside.

9. What does the foolish Alibech think she is doing when she allows the monk to have his way with her?
(a) hiding the devil from Rustico's hell.
(b) keeping the devil from leaving Rustico's cell.
(c) taking the lust out of Rustico's devil.
(d) putting Rustico's devil into her hell.

10. What does the foolish girl, Alibech, want to do?
(a) prove there is no God.
(b) become a warrior for God.
(c) to find one who can teach the ways of the Lord.
(d) learn about sex.

11. Why does Abraham conclude that the Christian religion is strong and will last?
(a) it has very beautiful churches.
(b) it leads the way in educating the people.
(c) it accomodates Jews.
(d) it survives the excesses of the clergy.

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

13. What does Rustico soon discover?
(a) that his willpower is not strong enough to resist Alibech.
(b) that Alibech snores and talks in her sleep.
(c) that he can watch Alibech at her bath.
(d) that Alibech is not as beautiful as he first thought.

14. Why does Berto della Massa go to Venice and take on the identity of Brother Alberto?
(a) he plans to steal gold from the church.
(b) he is such a liar that no one will have dealings with him.
(c) he is wanted for murder.
(d) he wants to find out what monks do in their cells.

15. Why is Masetto sleeping in the garden when the abbess finds him and begins to lust after him?
(a) he is lazy and is taking rest in the orchard.
(b) he has been working too hard in the orchard.
(c) he has been servicing eight nuns and is tired.
(d) he has been drinking the nun's wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Alibech set out on her quest?

2. How does Saladin honor Melchisedech?

3. What does Saladin plan to do when he visits Melchisedech?

4. Why does the first holy man send Alibech away?

5. What does Abraham observe among the church leaders in Rome?

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