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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does his uncle do when the pirates beginning running away?
(a) he kills the leader
(b) he tries to escape too
(c) he climbs Cosimo's tree
(d) he runs with them

2. What job does Cosimo do for local growers?
(a) pruning trees
(b) picking fruit
(c) chasing birds off of crops
(d) killing rabbits

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

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

5. How does Cosimo get a winter coat?
(a) he made it from animals he'd killed
(b) Viola gave him one
(c) his mother sent one to him
(d) he stole it

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

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

8. What eventually happens to the tree after it was covered in glue?
(a) it dies
(b) it becomes very heavy
(c) it became a national monument
(d) it turns purple

9. Where does Cosimo carve his dog's name?
(a) on Viola's garden wall
(b) on the roof of his father's house
(c) on his favorite tree
(d) on his sword shealth

10. What do the burglars who tried to use Gian do to Cosimo?
(a) set his tree on fire
(b) killed his dog
(c) kidnapped his brother
(d) stole his tent

11. How does the family make another attempt in the afternoon to get Cosimo down?
(a) the father climbs in the trees
(b) threatens to call the police
(c) says he can eat what he wants
(d) offering cake and hot chocolate

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

13. Why does the Abbe listen so carefully to Cosimo?
(a) he is full of startling ideas
(b) he is bored with his life
(c) he is his teacher
(d) he tries to correct Cosimo's language

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

15. How long were the brothers locked in their rooms for trying to rescue snails?
(a) two days
(b) a week
(c) three days
(d) 24 hours

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cosimo do when the Abbe Fauchelefleur passes below him?

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

3. Who does Cosimo's father send after him?

4. Why is Cosimo's father so upset about him being gone?

5. What does Cosimo's mother decide about him staying in the trees?

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