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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Cosimo drink and bathe?
(a) his brother brings him pails from the well
(b) hauling buckets from the river
(c) he has a hose from the ground
(d) with rainwater

2. What does the Cavalier do for the Baron?
(a) keep his books
(b) control the peasants
(c) protect his wife
(d) protect his land

3. Who is the narrator of this book?
(a) Battista, Cosimo's sister
(b) Biagio, Cosimo's brother
(c) Cosimo's father
(d) Cosimo's mother

4. Why is the children's teacher with Cosimo's family?
(a) he's Cosimo's cousin
(b) he's Cosimo's uncle
(c) he is escaping being jailed for theft
(d) escaping the Inquisition

5. What bothers Cosimo most about fig trees?
(a) they're so sticky
(b) they are too short
(c) they have too many birds
(d) they smell

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Biagio offer Cosimo as an apology?

2. For what does Cosimo become most famous?

3. Who does Cosimo begin correspondences with?

4. Where does Ottimo Massimo go one day after sniffing the breeze?

5. Why do Cosimo's mother and father stroll through the forest?

(see the answer key)

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