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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Cosimo decided to help the townspeople with their tithes to the nobles?
(a) to get more money
(b) to show how much he loves them
(c) to have fun
(d) to support the cause of justice and fairness

2. What army came in and almost arrested Battista and her husband?
(a) the Italian army
(b) the English army
(c) the Republican army
(d) the Austrian army

3. Where is Cosimo spending much of winter?
(a) in his sleeping bag
(b) at Viola's old garden
(c) near his brother's home
(d) in the tallest tree around

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

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

6. What do the Austrians say about the woods?
(a) they are evil
(b) they are beautiful
(c) they are good cover for troops
(d) the woods are full of Jacobins

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

8. How do the townspeople know Viola has left for a long absence?
(a) the dog is in the tree
(b) they don't see her white horse
(c) when Cosimo is in the ilex tree
(d) Cosimo quits talking

9. Why does Viola leave?
(a) she gets bored
(b) she can't get Cosimo to understand her
(c) she has estates she needs to care for
(d) she has a husband in Paris

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

11. Why are the Spaniards in the trees?
(a) they have no homes
(b) they are exiles
(c) they heard of Cosimo and want to try his life
(d) they are waiting for their homes to be built

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

13. 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

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

15. What do the townspeople begin to do to help Cosimo?
(a) look for another woman for him
(b) bring him good food
(c) listen to him rant
(d) write him poetry

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cosimo see hope for in his dream?

2. Where does Cosimo send three French soldiers who have come through the woods?

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

4. Where does Biagio go for a year?

5. When does Cosimo arrive in Olivabassa?

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