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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. When Cosimo writes a treatise on living in the trees to whom does he send it?

2. When does Cosimo arrive in Olivabassa?

3. Why are the Spaniards in the trees?

4. Why has Cosimo become known as such a great lover?

5. Who talks with Cosimo as an interpreter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Cosimo meet at the Spaniard community that answers his need for love? What happens between them?

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

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

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

5. What happens to the story of the Cavalier's death?

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

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

8. How does Cosimo die?

9. How do Cosimo and Viola feel right before they separate?

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

The reader may easily suppose, then, that he is a generous and doting lover, and recognizes in each woman, as he does in each of the other people with which he has interacted in the reader's observation, the things that make her valuable and unique, and in so recognizing it, helps her to recognize and celebrate it also.

1. Although this sentence was written about a lover, it can also be applied to any relationship. How do you think a person can make another feel valuable and unique? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Describe a time in your life when you felt valuable and unique. Did you feel that way because of what someone else said or did?

3. Why do you think people in general like to feel valuable and unique? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Biagio and Cosimo are left to identify their priorities and moralities on their own, basing them on the way the world appears to them. Their camaraderie is perfect until Biagio does not join Cosimo in his boycott of the meal of snails, and Biagio changes status to astonished observer of Cosimo's single-minded resolve.

1. How do you think Biagio felt when he caved in and ate the snails? Use examples from you book to support your answer.

2. If you were Cosimo would you blame Biagio for eating the snails? Why or why not?

3. Do you think the father was wrong for sending Cosimo from the table? Why or why not?

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