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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. What does Cosimo do that his mother enjoys?
(a) marries a strong woman
(b) brings his sister home
(c) takes up soldiering
(d) fetch her comforts

4. In what languages do Cosimo and Prince Andrej converse?
(a) English and Italian
(b) Russian and French
(c) Italian and French
(d) Russian and Italian

5. Why is a girl on a horse riding hard across the field for the trees?
(a) two men are chasing her
(b) she exercising her horse
(c) she ran into a hornet's nest
(d) she has lost control of her horse

6. What do the Spainish men sit upon in the trees?
(a) tree limbs
(b) round stools
(c) cushions
(d) saddles

7. What do Cosimo and Ursula end up doing?
(a) falling from the trees
(b) leaving
(c) getting married
(d) kissing

8. How many others are meeting with him?
(a) two
(b) one
(c) five
(d) fifty

9. Who has written Father Sulpicio about revolutionary ideas?
(a) the Abbe
(b) Cosimo's younger brother
(c) Cosimo's mother
(d) the church

10. What has Cosimo told the Spaniards is his reason for staying in the trees?
(a) it's his chosen form of protest
(b) he likes living above the ground
(c) he would be arrested if he came down
(d) he has no home

11. Why does Cosimo keep the pirate's treasure a secret?
(a) so the colliers will be able to take it
(b) so his uncle isn't thought bad of
(c) so the pirates will come back
(d) so he can live off the food for years

12. What happens as the result of their argument?
(a) nothing, they go on as usual
(b) Viola leaves and they never see each other again
(c) they get married
(d) Cosimo moves into her house

13. For what does Cosimo become most famous?
(a) telling stories
(b) being a baron
(c) havin a dog in the trees
(d) killing wild animals

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

15. What does Viola do when she thinks she's not important enough to Cosimo?
(a) cries
(b) withdraws her affection
(c) slaps him
(d) won't let him speak to her

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Cosimo when Viola leaves?

2. Why are the Spaniards in the trees?

3. Why are the young men fleeing into the woods?

4. What man returns to the town in a dream Cosimo has?

5. What is one of the first things Viola and Cosimo talk about?

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