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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what do the Cossacks come back?

2. What does Viola do when she thinks she's not important enough to Cosimo?

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

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

5. What does Biagio wish about his and his brother's ideas they had when they were young?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cosimo demonstrate his support for justice and fairness in chapter twenty-six?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cosimo holds ideals with more fervor than he does love.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What ideal that you hold means so much to you that you would give up love for it? Why or why not would you do that?

3. Do you think beliefs are worth giving up love for? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Chapter six resolves the childhood connection Cosimo has had with Viola, and foreshadows the intensity of the admiration he will have for her.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Explain the use of foreshadow in this sentence. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Taking from the first six chapters, why do you think Cosimo admires Viola so much?

Essay Topic 3

In the trees, he and the boys are quite able to exist as equals, on the ground the boys return to sad, filthy places to be scolded and beaten by mothers who refuse to feed them if they have not been able to steal enough to feed themselves. This is the beginning of social awareness in young Cosimo.

1. How do you think Cosimo's beliefs about the world changes when he follows the boys home? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Why do you think a rich boy like Cosimo has never seen or known how poor people live? Do you think this situation exist today? Why or why not?

3. How do you think wealthy people in the United States might change if they lived in the poorer part of town for a year?

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