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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 do the townspeople raise a bed in the trees for Cosimo?
(a) so he would live longer
(b) Biagio thought he'd like their father's bed
(c) his health is failing
(d) as payment fo his kindness

2. What is the girl doing when Cosimo arrives at the garden?
(a) wandering among the fountains
(b) petting his dog in her lap
(c) sleeping under a tree
(d) sitting on a bench

3. When Cosimo writes a treatise on living in the trees to whom does he send it?
(a) Prince Frederick
(b) Viola
(c) Diderot
(d) the Abbe

4. Why does he help the French lay out roads?
(a) for something to do
(b) to save the farms
(c) to protect the trees
(d) for a wage

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cosimo do when he can't get a woman for the night?

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

3. What does Cosimo confess when Ursula's father asks about his intentions?

4. What do the Spaniards keep doing about their situation?

5. What is Cosimo's next project after Viola leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cosimo get shot and what does he do during his recovery?

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

3. Where does the girl get her first glimpse of Cosimo and what does she do?

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

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

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

7. How does Cosimo die?

8. Who turns up again in Cosimo's life and who is with him?

9. What does Cosimo do in general about the soldiers wandering around?

10. How does Cosimo spend his time after the army shows up?

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