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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 does the painter do when he learns that Alessandra is pregnant?
(a) He wants to talk to her about it.
(b) He decides to finish the last panel of the fresco.
(c) He plans a vacation.
(d) He ignores it.

2. Why is the painter arrested in Chapter 41?
(a) Because Tomaso said he was a homosexual.
(b) Because he painted a devil in a church.
(c) Because he committed adultery.
(d) Because he never finished the fresco.

3. What does Erila do when she wakes Alessandra in Chapter 43?
(a) Has her move to the guest house.
(b) Changes her clothes.
(c) Makes her take medicine.
(d) Drags her through town.

4. In Chapter 42, what happens when Savonarola fails to raise to the challenge of another monk?
(a) A storm rolls through town.
(b) The other monk challenges him again.
(c) Disease strikes again.
(d) He moves away.

5. How does Alessandra's daughter, Plautilla, rebel in Chapter 47?
(a) She rejects womanly arts.
(b) She refuses to wear her hair up.
(c) She prefers flat shoes.
(d) She learns English.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the French enter Florence, what are they said to resemble?

2. How does Savonarola react to the plague?

3. Where is Cristoforo when Alessandra first feels her labor pains?

4. How does Cristoforo react to the plague?

5. How does Alessandra react when the monk asks for her help in Chapter 40?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alessandra do before the painter leaves the convent?

2. What does Savonarola do when the plague comes to Florence?

3. How does Alessandra prepare to end her life?

4. How does Cristoforo react to Tomaso and the painter being arrested?

5. Why does Cristoforo fake his death?

6. What does Alessandra do after learning Cristoforo has faked his death?

7. Why does Cristoforo want Alessandra to kick the painter out of their house in Chapter 34?

8. How do the French affect Alessandra's life in Chapter 20?

9. Why is the painter arrested?

10. What does Alessandra do when she begins to go into labor?

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