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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Cosimo's mother and father stroll through the forest?
(a) to go to the village
(b) for exercise
(c) to entice him out of the trees
(d) to find more snails for dinner

2. What kind of talent does Battista have?
(a) preparing rodents and animals for eating
(b) fencing
(c) weaving beautiful blankets
(d) painting portraits

3. Why is the meal at the beginning of the book significant?
(a) Cosimo's sister cooked it
(b) Cosimo's brother betrayed him by eating it
(c) it will be Cosimo's last on the ground
(d) it is of snails

4. What does Cosimo do when the Abbe Fauchelefleur passes below him?
(a) talk to him
(b) ignore him
(c) spit on him
(d) tosses bits of nature down on him

5. How does Cosimo's mother communicate with him?
(a) screaming up at the tree
(b) through a bull horn
(c) flag signals
(d) sending village boys with notes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Biagio do when he goes to bed that night?

2. What does Cosimo's father yell out to him at dinner?

3. Why do the men from town ask Cosimo to come down?

4. Who is the narrator of this book?

5. What is Cosimo first to discover about the trees?

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