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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Cosimo and Prince Andrej find they have in common?
(a) liking to live in trees
(b) ideals by which they live
(c) a great, great uncle on his father's side
(d) not having a girlfriend

2. To what does Cosimo change the name of his newspaper by the end of Chapter 26?
(a) Reasonable Vertebrate
(b) Love Gone
(c) Man and Reason
(d) Life is Difficult

3. 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) disappointment over life
(d) the plague

4. What does Cosimo confess when Ursula's father asks about his intentions?
(a) he loves her
(b) he is just a friend
(c) he will marry her and come with them
(d) he doesn't know how he feels

5. Who talks with Cosimo as an interpreter?
(a) he doesn't need one, he speaks Spainish
(b) Diego Sanchez Torio
(c) Abbe Fensi Buccali
(d) Father Sulpicio de Guadalete

6. Why has Cosimo become known as such a great lover?
(a) rumors
(b) people hearing him in the trees
(c) women talking
(d) he spread the story himself

7. What does Cosimo do with the French soldiers?
(a) joins their camp
(b) gives them fleas
(c) burns their gear
(d) has birds drop on them

8. Where does Cosimo leave the hot air balloon?
(a) in the mountains
(b) over his father's castle
(c) over the ocean
(d) in France

9. What does Viola say Cosimo's idea of love is?
(a) too loose
(b) old fashion
(c) mixed up
(d) very narrow

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

11. What man returns to the town in a dream Cosimo has?
(a) Battista's husband
(b) his father
(c) the Abbe
(d) Napoleon

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

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

14. What role does Cosimo slip into with the Spaniards?
(a) a favorite son
(b) a bringer of revolution
(c) a teacher
(d) a protector

15. What happened to the coats and hats of the French regiment?
(a) they are torn up by the trees
(b) nothing happened to them
(c) they begin to sprout moss and lichens
(d) they are covered in blood

Short Answer Questions

1. In what languages do Cosimo and Prince Andrej converse?

2. How do the townspeople feel about Cosimo and Viola's relationship?

3. What army came in and almost arrested Battista and her husband?

4. Cosimo says love is best served when what is allowed?

5. With what do the Cossacks come back?

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