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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who determines who will tell the stories on each successive night?
(a) the oldest of the 7 women and 3 men.
(b) the person chosen as queen or king for the next night.
(c) the last person to tell a stroy the night before.
(d) the group by popular vote.

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

3. How does Ciappelletto's confession later hoodwink the church?
(a) Ciappelletto becomes a martyr and is later canonized.
(b) Ciappelletto becomes a model for all businessmen.
(c) Ciappelletto is buried in the Vatican.
(d) Ciappelletto promises a donation he never makes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rustico soon discover?

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

3. Where does the monk take a woman?

4. Who is Alatiel?

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

(see the answer key)

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