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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the premise of the novel that results in rounds of story telling?
(a) 7 young women and 3 men leave Florence to escape the plague.
(b) 7 women and 7 men go on holiday together.
(c) 7 men and 3 young women leave Rome to escape the plague.
(d) 7 women and 3 children are banished from Florence society.

2. Where does the first holy man send Alibech?
(a) to a holy man who is supposedly more learned than the first.
(b) to a holy man who is paralyzed from the waist down.
(c) to a blind holy man who will not be tempted by her beauty.
(d) to a married holy man who will look on Alibech as a daughter.

3. What do the brothers do to Isabetta's lover?
(a) they have him tarred and feathered.
(b) they have his put into prison.
(c) they have him transferred to Paris.
(d) they have him taken out of the city and killed.

4. What results after Monna Lisetta believes Alberto's story and agrees to comply?
(a) Alberto has to find a suitable place.
(b) they carry on an affair for quite some time.
(c) Monna Lisetta only complies when wearing a blindfold.
(d) Alberto gets cold feet and calls it off.

5. How can Berto so easily convince people that he has taken on the vows of poverty and chastity?
(a) because no one in Vanice knows him.
(b) because he never speaks.
(c) because he genuinely wants to change.
(d) because he is such an accomplished liar.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Abraham returns, what does he want to do that surprises Giannotto?

2. Where does Alibech set out on her quest?

3. What is the occupation of the man Peronella marries?

4. How does Frederigo waste his fortune?

5. What does Giannotto di Civigni want to do?

(see the answer key)

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