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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Cosimo first to discover about the trees?
(a) they are more species than known
(b) they are not healthy
(c) they are much older than people thought
(d) the possible mobility trees provide

2. Who does Cosimo begin correspondences with?
(a) the Ecclesiastical Tribunal
(b) his extended family
(c) the King's court
(d) writers of the books he likes

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

4. What do Cosimo and his dog wait patiently for?
(a) the boys in the gang
(b) Viola to come home
(c) animals to hunt
(d) his brother to visit

5. Who does the Baron confide in and seek advice from?
(a) Viola's father
(b) Cosimo
(c) the Cavalier
(d) his wife

6. Why does the Baron scold Cosimo?
(a) for riding a horse that wasn't his
(b) for stealing food
(c) for stealing clothing
(d) making a spectacle of himself

7. How do the boys who steal fruit react to Cosimo at first?
(a) think he's wonderful
(b) set a trap for him
(c) they're indifferent
(d) toss him out of the trees

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

9. What do the townspeople do when Cosimo tells them of the cave?
(a) tell him not to wake them up
(b) go to take the treasure
(c) call the army
(d) go to arrest the Cavalier

10. What does the Count say he's going to do with Cosimo's story?
(a) get the army out to pull him down
(b) give it to the newspapers
(c) get a judge to rule against him
(d) tell his story at court

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

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

13. What kind of plants does Cosimo find in a neighbor's garden?
(a) tropical plants
(b) from all over the world
(c) nut trees
(d) tomato plants

14. Why to thieves drag Gian de Brughi from his hiding place?
(a) to make him commit a robery
(b) so he will be blamed for their crimes
(c) so he can help them
(d) for the reward money

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Biagio bring Cosimo during the rainstorm?

2. Who watches Viola closely at her house?

3. What does Cosimo do when Gian de Brughi is captured?

4. How does the family make another attempt in the afternoon to get Cosimo down?

5. What has changed about the land the Baron wants Cosimo to rule some day?

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