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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Princess ask Fabrizio to do?
(a) Stay in her outer rooms.
(b) Go get the King.
(c) Make sure Mangus sees the ghost.
(d) Go get the Queen.

2. Who does Fabrizio encounter while walking back to Mangus' rooms?
(a) Lorenzo.
(b) Scarazoni.
(c) Addetto.
(d) The Queen.

3. What does Fabrizio tell Mangus when Fabrizio returns with Mangus' breakfast?
(a) What he overhears in the chapel.
(b) The Prince is not deceased.
(c) The Princess' life is in danger.
(d) There is a spy among the kitchen staff.

4. What does Mangus say about everything?
(a) He wants to tell the King immediately.
(b) He has no reply.
(c) He thinks Fabrizio has made it all up.
(d) He offers a few theories.

5. The Count wants whom to avoid seeing Mangus?
(a) No one.
(b) His brother the King.
(c) The people of the city and castle.
(d) His brother the Count.

6. How does Mangus get to the castle?
(a) In a closed, unmarked carriage.
(b) He does not go to the castle.
(c) Walking.
(d) On his horse.

7. Why does Mangus chastise Fabrizio?
(a) For taking money from Sophia.
(b) For breaking the water jug.
(c) For talking to the Princess.
(d) For using magic.

8. What does Rinaldo tell Fabrizio?
(a) The Queen gave Renaldo the statue.
(b) The Queen gave Renaldo the coat of arms.
(c) The King ordered Renaldo to remove the vase.
(d) The Queen gave Renaldo the vase.

9. What happens as Fabrizio is being guided back to his rooms?
(a) They encounter the King.
(b) He trips and drops a large platter of food.
(c) His guide becomes suddenly frightened.
(d) The Princess comes out of her rooms to talk.

10. How do the soldiers know Mangus is there?
(a) They do not know Mangus' whereabouts.
(b) He tells them his name.
(c) The Count accidentally calls to him.
(d) He removes his hood.

11. Where does Fabrizio's guide direct Fabrizio?
(a) To the attic.
(b) To a secret door.
(c) To a secret stairway.
(d) To a hiding place in a hidden passageway.

12. What does the Queen find in the cabinet with the hidden door?
(a) A box of letters.
(b) The body of Count Scarazoni.
(c) The body of Signore Addetto.
(d) One of the Princess' bracelets.

13. What does the Princess believe about the ghost?
(a) It is her grandmother.
(b) It is her brother seeking revenge.
(c) It is her former self.
(d) It is the court wizard that was executed many years ago.

14. Who shows Fabrizio back to his rooms?
(a) The kitchen knight.
(b) Ernesto.
(c) The scullery maid.
(d) Rinaldo.

15. Why is Fabrizio engaged in his actions at the beginning of the book?
(a) He is in love with the cook.
(b) He is exhausted from a long march.
(c) He wants to learn Mangus' future.
(d) He worries his master does not eat often enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Fabrizio talk while he is in the halls?

2. Where does Fabrizio encounter a number of guards?

3. What does Mangus tell Fabrizio about the niche?

4. What does Fabrizio accidentally do when Mangus and he are alone?

5. Whom does Mangus thank?

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