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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cosimo conclude after studying Gian de Brughi's life and the stories about him?
(a) he would have to use the trees to get away
(b) other thieves just use his name
(c) he doesn't exist
(d) he would have to be very old

2. What kind of dog does Cosimo befriend?
(a) a dachshund
(b) a retriever
(c) a Komodor
(d) a poodle

3. What is Cosimo trying to do about the people who live below him?
(a) make friends and learn from them
(b) steal from them to live
(c) educate them
(d) give them a better life

4. How does Cosimo defend himself against a suggest of trespass in the garden?
(a) says he hasn't actually put his foot on the ground
(b) says he hasn't crossed the wall
(c) says he is visiting
(d) says his mother knows the owner

5. What does Cosimo's father yell out to him at dinner?
(a) Biagio will be confined to the house
(b) he is forgiven
(c) if he doesn't come down he will starve
(d) he will be sent to prison

6. What does Cosimo say about resuming his education?
(a) he's willing to do it
(b) he won't do it
(c) he will teach himself
(d) he will come home in the fall

7. What does Biagio bring Cosimo during the rainstorm?
(a) a rain coat
(b) a waterproof sleeping bag
(c) an old army tent
(d) food and two umbrellas

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

9. Where is Viola sent when she leaves home?
(a) to a reform school
(b) to a boarding school
(c) to her aunts' house
(d) to the store

10. What does Cosimo's mother decide about him staying in the trees?
(a) becomes quite proud of her son
(b) she makes him a pillow
(c) she disowns him
(d) she climbs in the trees herself

11. Who does Viola blame for being shut up in her bedroom?
(a) the band of boys
(b) her mother
(c) the Cavalier
(d) Cosimo

12. What has changed about the land the Baron wants Cosimo to rule some day?
(a) the organization of it
(b) the people who live on it
(c) the type of families that live on it
(d) the type of crops raised

13. What does Cosimo do when Gian de Brughi is captured?
(a) testifies against him
(b) rescues him
(c) claims to have done it himself
(d) send him flowers

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What eventually happens to the tree after it was covered in glue?

2. What does Cosimo see pirates doing one night?

3. What does the Cavalier do for the Baron?

4. Why does the Baron want Cosimo to come down from the trees?

5. Who does Cosimo begin correspondences with?

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