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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gualtieri finally marries, what does he decide to do?

2. What suddenly happens to Monna Giovanna's son?

3. When Calandrino finds what he thinks are magic stones, how do his friends play a trick on him?

4. On the road, how do Rabatta and Bondone dress?

5. How do Gualtieri and his wife get back together?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the affair between Caterina and Ricciardo work itself out?

2. How does Peronella turn the situation around and get her husband inside the barrel.

3. What happens when the two men come to confess to Brother Onion what they had done.?

4. What is the result of Frederigo's attempts to impress Monna Giovanna?

5. How does the nun know that the abbess cannot punish her?

6. What is the sad situation with Frederigo, a man of noble birth?

7. What unusual thing causes Peronella and her lover to look for a place to hide him?

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Sin of Getting Caught. Use examples from THE DECAMERON to show how the thing people are often sorriest for is that of getting caught. Contrast Peronella and Brother Alberto to show how getting caught is what brings a person down.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, The Value of Quick Thinking. Find at least two examples of how a person's quick thinking in THE DECAMERON averted a serious complication. Discuss the ability to think quickly in compromising situations and give an example or two of how it might work in a situation you set up for purposes of this essay.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the topic, Attitudes About the Morality of the Clergy. In your essay point out from THE DECAMERON how it is assumed that many if not most of the clergy are morally remiss in having affairs. Compare this to modern times when clergy have been brought down because of their moral indiscretions.

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