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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 do the nobles do in response to the collecting problem?
(a) shoot Cosimo
(b) hang one of every 20 people
(c) burn the village down
(d) lock themselves in their houses

2. How do the Spaniards appear to Cosimo?
(a) finely dressed, somber, and civilized
(b) dirty and poor
(c) rough and uneducated
(d) disheartened

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

4. Why has Cosimo become known as such a great lover?
(a) rumors
(b) women talking
(c) people hearing him in the trees
(d) he spread the story himself

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Viola say Cosimo's idea of love is?

2. What does Cosimo claim to be to the group?

3. How does the Austrian soldiers appear to Cosimo?

4. Where does the girl on the horse go?

5. Why is a girl on a horse riding hard across the field for the trees?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Cosimo get his first glimpse of the widow that his dog has been visiting and what is she doing when he sees her?

2. What army show up in chapter twenty-eight and who is almost arrested by them?

3. What happens to Ottimo Massimo in chapter twenty?

4. What is written about Cosimo's love life in chapter nineteen and how is it described?

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

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

7. What does Cosimo do in specific to the soldiers in the woods?

8. What happens to Cosimo when Viola leaves?

9. What kind of stories does Biagio tell at the beginning of chapter twenty and who has he spoken with about his brother?

10. Describe the dream Cosimo had in chapter twenty-nine.

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