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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group of individuals hears about the Abbe's conversations with Cosimo?
(a) the Ecclesiastical Tribunal
(b) the burglers
(c) the King's Court
(d) Cosimo's extended family

2. Who does Cosimo begin correspondences with?
(a) the King's court
(b) writers of the books he likes
(c) the Ecclesiastical Tribunal
(d) his extended family

3. What do the fruit boys learn from Cosimo?
(a) that the farmers are nice people
(b) how to find the best fruit
(c) how to avoid the farmers' dogs scenting them
(d) how to move through the trees without going down

4. Where is Viola sent when she leaves home?
(a) to a reform school
(b) to a boarding school
(c) to the store
(d) to her aunts' house

5. How does the family make another attempt in the afternoon to get Cosimo down?
(a) offering cake and hot chocolate
(b) the father climbs in the trees
(c) threatens to call the police
(d) says he can eat what he wants

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cosimo hide most of his letters?

2. How does Cosimo's mother communicate with him?

3. Why is the children's teacher with Cosimo's family?

4. Who does the Baron confide in and seek advice from?

5. What do the burglars who tried to use Gian do to Cosimo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Biagio do in the morning after his brother spent the first night in the trees?

2. What is Cosimo's thoughts concerning the people living below him?

3. Why is Cosimo curious about Gian de Brughi?

4. Why does the Cavlier slip off the Baron's land occasionally and how does Cosimo help him?

5. Why does Cosimo talk with the Abbe so much and what happens as the result?

6. How does Cosimo's mother and father try to get him to come down from the trees and what does Biagio do?

7. How does Cosimo's mother feel by the evening about Cosimo still being in the trees?

8. What does Cosimo's father request of him when he goes out to see him?

9. Why does Cosimo begin writing to authors of books he likes?

10. What does Cosimo do to impress Viola?

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