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

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

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

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

5. Why does Viola leave?
(a) she gets bored
(b) she has estates she needs to care for
(c) she has a husband in Paris
(d) she can't get Cosimo to understand her

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Cosimo send three French soldiers who have come through the woods?

3. What happened to the coats and hats of the French regiment?

4. What has Cosimo told the Spaniards is his reason for staying in the trees?

5. What does Cosimo do when he sees the group?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Cosimo when Viola leaves?

3. What happens to Ottimo Massimo in chapter twenty?

4. 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?

5. How does Cosimo die?

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

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

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

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

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

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