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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lucrezia feel when she is headed for open water in "The Heart of the Matter"?
(a) Calm.
(b) Happy.
(c) Confused.
(d) Ill at ease.

2. What is the name of the eighth dwarf?
(a) Lastday.
(b) Sevenday.
(c) Oneday.
(d) Nextday.

3. Where is the Greek monastery where Vicente is being held?
(a) Athens.
(b) Tesophilos.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Attica.

4. What does Bianca see when she looks around at the beginning of "The Dwarves"?
(a) Boulders with human characteristics.
(b) A bunch of small creatures giggling back at her.
(c) A group of men-like creatures starring back at her.
(d) Tree trunks with smiles.

5. What does Lucrezia believe of the apple from The Tree of Knowledge?
(a) It will bring her wealth and power.
(b) It is powerless.
(c) It holds the secret to immortality.
(d) It will end Bianca's life.

6. What do the dwarves seem to share?
(a) Physical attributes.
(b) Inside jokes.
(c) Secrets.
(d) Clothes.

7. What physical attribute does this son have?
(a) Very small ears.
(b) A large head.
(c) A deformed arm.
(d) Six toes on each foot.

8. Why did the dwarves craft the mirror?
(a) To give as a gift to the pope.
(b) To observe humans so that they could mimic them.
(c) To check their appearance.
(d) To go back in time.

9. Who kisses Bianca in "Fire and Ivy"?
(a) Michelotto.
(b) Cesare.
(c) Ranuccio.
(d) Prince Dschem.

10. What did Ranuccio do after releasing Bianca in the woods?
(a) He got married and then his wife died.
(b) He left Montefiore.
(c) He joined the army.
(d) He travelled across the sea.

11. Who tells Vicente that Bianca is dead?
(a) Primavera.
(b) The dwarf.
(c) Lucrezia.
(d) Fra Ludovico.

12. How does Bianca's childhood seem to her in "Montefiore"?
(a) She cannot remember it.
(b) Both familiar and unfamiliar.
(c) Like it happened yesterday.
(d) Like a fairy tale.

13. Where was the monastery where Ranuccio went after he released Bianca in the woods?
(a) Bergamo.
(b) Cirocenia.
(c) Perugia.
(d) San Erasmo.

14. Who narrates "Montefiore"?
(a) Ranuccio.
(b) Bianca.
(c) The dwarves.
(d) Lucrezia.

15. What alerts Michelotto to the existence of the coffin in "Fire and Ivy"?
(a) He stumbles upon the mirror and sees a vision of the coffin.
(b) He sees the ivy burning.
(c) He hears the dwarves talking about it.
(d) He is hunting in the woods and sees it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Lucrezia changed since Cesare's death?

2. What is Lucrezia amazed by in "The Heart of the Matter"?

3. What husband is Lucrezia married to by "As-iksr"?

4. Which dwarf has a red beard?

5. Who narrates the chapter called "As-iksr"?

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