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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 are Peronella and her lover surprised one afternoon?
(a) Peronella's husband sends his friend to see her.
(b) Peronella's husband has an accident at work.
(c) Peronella's husband comes home unexpectedly.
(d) Peronella's husband comes to spy on her.

2. When Rabatta and Bondone meet on the road to Florence, what happens to cause them to seek shelter?
(a) a high wind begins to blow.
(b) the night falls suddenly.
(c) it starts to rain.
(d) highwaymen are spotted.

3. Why does the Brother from St. Anthony's monastery travel each year to a nearby village?
(a) to give alms.
(b) to collect alms.
(c) to take confessions.
(d) to feed the poor.

4. What is Bondone's profession?
(a) he is a noted artist.
(b) he is a knight in the court.
(c) he is a noted composer.
(d) he is a prominent merchant.

5. What do the two men who know Brother Onion plan to do?
(a) slip into his room and steal the feather.
(b) glue the lid shut on the box containing the feather.
(c) exchange the white feather for a black one.
(d) exchange the feather for a turkey feather.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tingoccio tell Meuccio he now is?

2. What is Peronella's occupation?

3. What is the occupation of the man Peronella marries?

4. With whom does Caterina fall in love?

5. When Don Gianni visit the house of the poor Pietro da Tresanti, what is the situation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that Don Gianni declares has broken the spell to change Pietro's wife into a mare?

2. Explain the kind of work done by another ugly man by the name of Giotto di Bondone.

3. Why do several nuns come to the Abbess' door in the middle of the night?

4. On the way home in the rain, what is Rabatta's insulting comment about his friend, Bondone?

5. When two of Brother Onion's friends see him in the village proclaiming he will show a feather from the angel Gabriel, what do they plan to do?

6. What is the result of a man sneaking into an Abbess' cell after he has fallen in love with her?

7. Describe the painters, Calandrino, Bruno, and Buffalmacco.

8. When collecting alms from a nearby village, what does Brother Onion use to get the people to give freely?

9. When Calandrino finds what he thinks are magic rocks, what do Bruno and Buffalmacco decide to do.

10. Although Frederigo would give anything to Monna Giovanna, why is it impossible for him to give her the falcon?

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