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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 when he sees the group?
(a) greets them politely
(b) hits them with tree limbs
(c) throws rocks at them
(d) ignores them

2. How has Viola being in the trees changed the atmosphere in the trees?
(a) Cosimo spends less with the trees
(b) Cosimo has made it more gracious
(c) it hasn't changed
(d) Viola has torn down the tent

3. Who comes back to Ombrosa with the troops?
(a) Battista
(b) Viola
(c) Biagio
(d) Father Sulpico

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

5. Why are the young men fleeing into the woods?
(a) to find food for their families
(b) to avoid taxes
(c) to avoid conscription
(d) to fight against the army

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

7. What gives Cosimo hope that he can find a lover?
(a) several women have expressed interest
(b) Viola has returned
(c) a community of Spaniards living in the trees
(d) his mother is arranging his marriage

8. Where does Cosimo send three French soldiers who have come through the woods?
(a) to Viola's old house
(b) to his brother's house
(c) to bathe
(d) through the east part of the woods

9. How does Cosimo feel when Viola is acting capricious or trying to provoke jealousy?
(a) angry
(b) loved
(c) happy
(d) confused and frustrated

10. For what reason has Cosimo found that Ottimo Massimo does not come back often?
(a) he is being fed better at another house
(b) he has died
(c) he has found a female dog
(d) he stays with a widow

11. Why is Biagio called home?
(a) Cosimo has fallen from a tall tree
(b) their mother's asthma has gotten much worse
(c) Cosimo wants him to be Baron
(d) his sister is ill

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

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

14. What is Cosimo's next project after Viola leaves?
(a) advocate and ambassador for the birds
(b) finding a wife
(c) writing a book
(d) planting a new orchard

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Cosimo when Viola leaves?

2. What role does Cosimo slip into with the Spaniards?

3. Where does Cosimo leave the hot air balloon?

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

5. What color are Ursula's eyes?

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