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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cosimo do to the Austrian soldiers?
(a) throws their clothes in the river
(b) pours water in their sleeping bags
(c) lures them into traps
(d) gives them fleas

2. How do the townspeople feel about Cosimo and Viola's relationship?
(a) it's too public
(b) it's an ideal match
(c) it will never last
(d) it's weird

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

4. What do the girl and Cosimo decide before he leaves?
(a) that the dog can stay with her
(b) to meet somewhere
(c) that Cosimo would visit her in a week
(d) that they would marry

5. What color are Ursula's eyes?
(a) green
(b) amber
(c) brown
(d) the color of periwinkles

6. What does Cosimo challenge the Father to do?
(a) have a fist fight
(b) tell him more of the church
(c) settle their dispute
(d) a sword duel

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

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

9. What is Cosimo doing for long periods of time as an old man?
(a) sitting still and silent
(b) talking to his brother
(c) writing a book
(d) telling stories

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

11. Who collects the tithes from the people?
(a) the sheriff
(b) the noble
(c) the bailiff
(d) the actuary

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

13. Why does he help the French lay out roads?
(a) to protect the trees
(b) for a wage
(c) for something to do
(d) to save the farms

14. How does the Austrian soldiers appear to Cosimo?
(a) organized and efficient
(b) kill happy
(c) well disciplined but with no woods knowledge
(d) clumsy

15. Why are the townspeople fascinated with his love life?
(a) life is boring in that town
(b) his ability to have one in the trees
(c) he is their Baron
(d) he's the most eligible bachelor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Biagio do after the Generalessa dies?

2. What does Biagio think of Cosimo and the girl?

3. When Cosimo writes a treatise on living in the trees to whom does he send it?

4. Biagio says Cosimo and Viola's relationship works best when?

5. What do the townspeople begin to do to help Cosimo?

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