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

2. Where does Cosimo leave the hot air balloon?
(a) over the ocean
(b) in France
(c) in the mountains
(d) over his father's castle

3. To what does Cosimo change the name of his newspaper by the end of Chapter 26?
(a) Love Gone
(b) Man and Reason
(c) Reasonable Vertebrate
(d) Life is Difficult

4. What does Viola want Cosimo to allow?
(a) her multiple lovers
(b) not getting married
(c) having children
(d) her frequent trips away

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as the result of their argument?

2. How has Viola being in the trees changed the atmosphere in the trees?

3. How does Cosimo feel when Viola is acting capricious or trying to provoke jealousy?

4. What happens when a jealous suitor goes after Cosimo?

5. Where does the girl on the horse go?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cosimo set up the protest against tithes?

2. Who does Cosimo go to see in Olivabassa, and what does he find there?

3. What does Biagio say about Viola and Cosimo's relationship?

4. What happens to Cosimo's father in chapter sixteen?

5. How does Cosimo feel towards Ursula and what does he tell her father?

6. What happens to Cosimo when Viola leaves?

7. What does Biagio say when he reflects on the ideals he and his brother had as youth?

8. What results from Cosimo convincing Sulpico that he is a Freemason?

9. How do Cosimo and Viola feel right before they separate?

10. What brings Cosimo out of his depression and what does he do?

(see the answer keys)

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