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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. Why does Cosimo keep the pirate's treasure a secret?
(a) so his uncle isn't thought bad of
(b) so the pirates will come back
(c) so he can live off the food for years
(d) so the colliers will be able to take it

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

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

4. What does Viola say Cosimo's idea of love is?
(a) very narrow
(b) too loose
(c) mixed up
(d) old fashion

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What army came in and almost arrested Battista and her husband?

2. What type of government is established by the new army?

3. Why does he help the French lay out roads?

4. How do the townspeople feel about Cosimo and Viola's relationship?

5. What does Cosimo do that his mother enjoys?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cosimo die?

2. What do the townspeople see and say about Viola and Cosimo?

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

4. What happens to Cosimo when Viola leaves?

5. When does Cosimo arrive in Olivabassa and what does he become there?

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

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

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

9. What does Biagio find out about Viola's trips away?

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

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