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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Biagio go for a year?
(a) to a resort
(b) to the King's court
(c) traveling
(d) to his sister's

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

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

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

6. What does Cosimo claim to be to the group?
(a) an atheist
(b) a Freemason
(c) a monk
(d) a married man

7. What do the townspeople call Cosimo?
(a) Lord Baron
(b) Homeless Baron
(c) Tree Baron
(d) Landless Baron

8. What does Cosimo contribute to the secret ceremonies?
(a) one to enrich farmers
(b) one to honor the rain
(c) nothing
(d) one honoring trees

9. With what do the Cossacks come back?
(a) dead French soldiers
(b) Cosimo's brother
(c) a stray dog
(d) a dead deer for meat

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

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

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

13. What happens to Cosimo when Viola leaves?
(a) he begins to act like a Baron
(b) he takes leave of his senses
(c) he comes down from the trees
(d) nothing happens

14. What is one of the first things Viola and Cosimo talk about?
(a) the boy gang of thieves
(b) the day of their separtion
(c) Cosimo's father
(d) Viola's aunts

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the townspeople know Viola has left for a long absence?

3. What does he tell the vintners about the tithes that year?

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

5. What does Viola do when she thinks she's not important enough to Cosimo?

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