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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gabriele d'Annunzio's the Idolaters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Ranocchio to start coughing up blood?
(a) He falls in the mines.
(b) He swallows something sharp.
(c) Malpelo hits him on the back.
(d) Malpelo shakes him.

2. Why does Madonna Zilia ask Monsignor Filiberto to take an oath?
(a) Because she is bored.
(b) Because she knows he will do it.
(c) Because she wants to control him.
(d) Because she thinks he won't do it.

3. Why can't Belfagor leave town?
(a) His creditors are after him.
(b) The other devils make him stay.
(c) He decides he doesn't want to leave.
(d) Onesta's father finds him.

4. In "The Idolaters," what are the red lights in the sky?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Another town's warning signal.
(c) Something from space.
(d) The northern lights.

5. Why does Pallura bring candle wax with him in "The Idolaters"?
(a) He is a wax dealer.
(b) He developed a new type of wax.
(c) The church is out of candles.
(d) Candles could help stop the red lights.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Giacobbe want the people of Mascalico to feel after his visit to their church?

2. What does Bianca dislike about her husband, Emilio Squarcina?

3. How does Gianmatteo get Belfagor to leave the king's daughter's body and return to hell?

4. When she visits Monsignor Filiberto, what does Madonna Zilia tell him that disappoints him?

5. What does Giacobbe discover about Pallura?

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