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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abraham observe among the church leaders in Rome?
(a) great piety and devotion to Jesus and the saints.
(b) great humility with vows of poverty and celibacy.
(c) greed, lust, lechery, and many other things that a man of God should not be a part of.
(d) strong examples of how to live a clean life.

2. After the trouble at sea, what happens to the men who love Alatiel?
(a) most of them abandon her.
(b) most of them are murdered so she can be taken.
(c) most of them sell her to other men.
(d) most of them commit suicide.

3. What are the three holy laws Saladin challenges Melchisedech to name as the one with the most truths?
(a) the law of the church, the state, or the royalty.
(b) the law of the Christians, the Jews, or the Hindus.
(c) the law of Nature, of the Gods, or the Professors.
(d) the law of the Jews, Saracens, or Christians.

4. How does Saladin honor Melchisedech?
(a) he makes him his regent.
(b) he builds him a palace.
(c) he makes him his chamberlain.
(d) he takes him to the court of Babylon.

5. Where do Constanza and Alatiel go after they leave Athens?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Babylon.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pietro go to ply his trade?

2. How does Ser Ciappelletto get a priest to absolve him?

3. When Ciappelletto becomes gravely ill, what do the brothers think?

4. Who discovers what the monk is doing?

5. How does a prostitute deceive Pietro?

(see the answer key)

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