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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. What are being guarded by a community of monks in Greece?
(a) A golden key.
(b) The apples from the Garden of Eden.
(c) Cesare's fortune.
(d) A group of high society virgins.

2. What does Bianca's father do with the item he finds in the mud in Part One?
(a) He hangs it above the mantle.
(b) He hides it in a book.
(c) He drinks it.
(d) He gives it to his daughter.

3. Why is Bianca shunned by the other girls living at the family home?
(a) Because she is haughty.
(b) Because she is clumsy and simple.
(c) Because she is poor.
(d) Because she is the landowner's daughter.

4. What does Lucrezia tell Ranuccio to do in Part Two?
(a) Sell the mirror.
(b) Hunt the dwarves and bring them to her.
(c) Take Bianca to the woods and kill her.
(d) Build a secret chamber for her.

5. Why does Bianca's father feel concerned and sad in "The Vision in San Francisco"?
(a) Because Bianca is left alone.
(b) Because Bianca is ill.
(c) Because he is broke.
(d) Because he misses his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a name of one of the dwarves?

2. What does Lucrezia refer to her child with Alfonso de Bisceglie?

3. What does Ranuccio find impossible to do since the meeting near the waterfall?

4. How might one describe Bianca's relationship with Primavera?

5. What will happen to Bianca's father if he refuses Cesare's request in "Prince Dschem's Secret"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fra Ludovico lie to Bianca about in Part 1?

2. What happens when Lucrezia leaves the room to attend to the gooseboy in Part 2?

3. What does Lucrezia ask the mirror in Part 2?

4. Who is Lucrezia?

5. Who is Don Vicente?

6. What does Lucrezia think of Bianca in Part 1?

7. How did Lucrezia and Vicente become involved in each other's lives?

8. What does the reader learn about the dwarves in Part 2?

9. Who is Primavera Vecchia?

10. What does Lucrezia remember of her childhood in "Bring Me Her Heart Carved from Her Chest"?

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