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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 does Caterina say she wants to hear at night?
(a) the troubadors.
(b) the breeze in the trees.
(c) the crickets.
(d) the nightingale.

2. When does Peronella's lover come to visit her?
(a) in the daytime when her husband is at work.
(b) on the days her husband goes to the next village.
(c) when Peronella gives sleeping powder to her husband.
(d) at night after her husband falls asleep.

3. What do the nuns do because they think Masetto is deaf?
(a) use sign language.
(b) peek at him in his bath.
(c) teach him to write.
(d) poke fun at him.

4. What euphemism does the story teller use for "the thing you are ashamed to mention among men?"
(a) the flower.
(b) the nightingale.
(c) the branch.
(d) the bower.

5. Who does Pietro take up with after he loses all his money and clothes?
(a) some sorcerers.
(b) some highwaymen.
(c) some gamblers.
(d) some grave robbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the trouble at sea, what happens to the men who love Alatiel?

2. Who is Alatiel's next lover after Constanzo?

3. As they travel along, what do Rabatta and Bondone begin to do?

4. Why do the nuns keep Masetto in the convent for many years?

5. What story does Alberto tell Monna Lisetta?

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