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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Marato on board a ship?
(a) he is hung.
(b) he is talked into selling Alatiel.
(c) he is shot.
(d) he is thrown overboard.

2. Why does the first holy man send Alibech away?
(a) she is beautiful and he cannot trust himself around her.
(b) she asks too many questions disturbing his meditations.
(c) she is too stupid to learn his truths.
(d) he tells her everything he has to tell.

3. When Ciappelletto becomes gravely ill, what do the brothers think?
(a) they can steal his money after he dies.
(b) no priest would ever absolve a man as evil as Ciappelletto.
(c) they might have to take him back to Paris.
(d) no one would blame them for turning him out of their house.

4. What does the foolish Alibech think she is doing when she allows the monk to have his way with her?
(a) keeping the devil from leaving Rustico's cell.
(b) taking the lust out of Rustico's devil.
(c) putting Rustico's devil into her hell.
(d) hiding the devil from Rustico's hell.

5. Why do the nuns keep Masetto in the convent for many years?
(a) he agrees to stay if they stop wanting sex.
(b) he speaks and they think God has worked a miracle.
(c) he fathers children the nuns say are orphans.
(d) he knows too much about their activities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rustico tell Alibech she must do to serve God?

2. Who determines who will tell the stories on each successive night?

3. Who takes Alatiel from the sailor after the murder of the other sailor?

4. What does a monk see that ignites his temptation?

5. Where does the monk take a woman?

(see the answer key)

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