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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 does Michelotto ask the dwarves for in "Fire and Ivy"?
(a) Information on how Bianca came to be in the coffin.
(b) Directions.
(c) Some food to eat.
(d) Permission to kiss Bianca.

2. Who does Bianca see has been waiting for her upon her return to Montefiore?
(a) No one.
(b) Just her father.
(c) Vicente, Primavera and Ludovico.
(d) Her favorite dog.

3. What confuses Bianca in "A Hole in the World"?
(a) The names of the dwarves.
(b) How she cannot seem to remember how to do simple tasks.
(c) Why she can't return to Montefiore.
(d) How the dwarves are able to anticipate her every need.

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

5. What does Lucrezia do when she heads for open water in "The Heart of the Matter"?
(a) She instructs the gondolier to turn back toward the city.
(b) She washes her hair in the water.
(c) She sings a merry tune.
(d) She throws her jewelry in the water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the father of Lucrezia's second child in "Thais" die?

3. Why does it take some time for the dwarves to notice the unconscious Bianca in "The Oval Window"?

4. Who does Bianca meet in the woods in "A Figure in the Clearing"?

5. What do the dwarves tell Bianca about the eighth dwarf in "The Dwarves"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ranuccio deny Michelotto? What does Ranuccio do in his place?

2. How does Bianca feel when she returns to Montefiore in "Montefiore"?

3. Why did Ranuccio go to Cirocenia?

4. Why did Primavera lose her ability to speak?

5. What do the dwarves do to the coffin in "Fire and Ivy"?

6. Why does Lucrezia travel to the palace of the Doge in Part 4?

7. What strange things does Bianca observe while staying with the dwarves in "A Hole in the World"?

8. What happens when Vicente talks aloud in his cell in "A Beast in the Wall"?

9. What does Bianca remember of Montefiore in "A Hole in the World"? What does her memory lead her to wish for?

10. Who is Michelotto?

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