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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does it seem the girls who spend the night with Cosimo feel?
(a) regretful
(b) baffled
(c) like he took advantage of them
(d) like a once in a lifetime experience

2. What does Biagio seem to indicate is the main reason for the Baron's death?
(a) an old war injury
(b) his wife had died
(c) the plague
(d) disappointment over life

3. When does Cosimo arrive in Olivabassa?
(a) spring
(b) fall
(c) winter
(d) summer

4. What does Cosimo do when he can't get a woman for the night?
(a) he hunts night animals
(b) he sings loudly
(c) he talks with his brother
(d) he wails and yawns

5. When Cosimo writes a treatise on living in the trees to whom does he send it?
(a) the Abbe
(b) Prince Frederick
(c) Diderot
(d) Viola

6. How does Cosimo spend his time?
(a) looking for a wife
(b) looking for another dog for a pet
(c) reading books in German
(d) protecting the underdog

7. What do the Spaniards keep doing about their situation?
(a) build an army
(b) nothing
(c) draft letters of appeal to their sovereign
(d) collect weapons

8. Why did Biagio climb into the trees when his brother was 65 years old?
(a) to bring him a picture of Viola
(b) to bring Viola there
(c) to bring him food
(d) to ask him to come down

9. What is the girl doing when Cosimo arrives at the garden?
(a) petting his dog in her lap
(b) sleeping under a tree
(c) sitting on a bench
(d) wandering among the fountains

10. What does Biagio wish about his and his brother's ideas they had when they were young?
(a) that Viola would have had them
(b) that they would have been brought forward
(c) that they hadn't caused so much trouble
(d) that Biagio would have lived in the trees

11. Why do the townspeople raise a bed in the trees for Cosimo?
(a) as payment fo his kindness
(b) so he would live longer
(c) Biagio thought he'd like their father's bed
(d) his health is failing

12. What noise does Cosimo have the people do in the distance surrounding the collection area?
(a) rocks banging together
(b) pots and pans being hit on
(c) conch shells being blown
(d) sword fighting sounds

13. Why does Cosimo finally have to pay attention to life again?
(a) a pack of woves enter town
(b) his dog comes back
(c) his brother is ill
(d) the trees need pruning

14. Why has Father Don Sulpico reappeared in the area?
(a) to start a new order of monks
(b) bringing a message to Cosimo
(c) still wants to stop free-thinking
(d) to start a new church

15. Biagio says Cosimo and Viola's relationship works best when?
(a) when the dog is around
(b) when he is telling stories
(c) when it is mutually adventuresome
(d) when she is tired

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Viola leave?

2. What do the townspeople call Cosimo?

3. Who has written Father Sulpicio about revolutionary ideas?

4. What happened to the coats and hats of the French regiment?

5. What do the Spainish men sit upon in the trees?

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