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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Cosimo's father give him?
(a) a new knife
(b) better clothes
(c) a bow and arrows
(d) his sword

3. What does Cosimo's mother want to know about his teams?
(a) if they obey him
(b) if they're armed and doing maneuvers
(c) if they want to live in the trees with him
(d) if they feed him

4. What happens to Gian de Brughi?
(a) he has to pay a huge fine
(b) he is hung
(c) his hand is cut off
(d) he is sent to prison

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

6. Why is Cosimo curious about the thieve, Gian de Brughi?
(a) he wants to know what it's like to be famous
(b) he wants to capture him for the fame
(c) he's been blamed for many robberies
(d) he wants to learn how to steal

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

8. What does Cosimo tell Viola the next time he sees her?
(a) his mother wants him to come home
(b) he will never leave the trees
(c) he loves her
(d) he has joined the band of boys

9. What does Cosimo see pirates doing one night?
(a) kidnapping women
(b) stealing goats
(c) unloading cargo into a cave
(d) getting drunk

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

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

12. How does Sinforosa get around the village?
(a) she walks
(b) on a white horse
(c) she swings through the trees
(d) in a carriage

13. What group of individuals hears about the Abbe's conversations with Cosimo?
(a) the King's Court
(b) the Ecclesiastical Tribunal
(c) the burglers
(d) Cosimo's extended family

14. Why does Cosimo believe olive trees are great for climbing?
(a) their branches are close together
(b) they smell nice
(c) they have good traction
(d) they have small leaves

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cosimo drink and bathe?

2. How does Cosimo want his brother to prove he can be trusted?

3. Who sneaks out and covers Cosimo's tree with glue?

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

5. What kind of talent does Battista have?

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