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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nuto leave the convent where he was the gardener?
(a) the work was too difficult for him.
(b) the salary was too low and he got conflicting orders.
(c) he got too old to tend the garden.
(d) he had an accident so he could no longer work.

2. Where does Alibech set out on her quest?
(a) she goes alone to Greece.
(b) she goes alone to explore the Egyptian desert.
(c) she goes alone to study in Alexandria.
(d) she goes alone to Jerusalem.

3. Why is Masetto sleeping in the garden when the abbess finds him and begins to lust after him?
(a) he is lazy and is taking rest in the orchard.
(b) he has been servicing eight nuns and is tired.
(c) he has been drinking the nun's wine.
(d) he has been working too hard in the orchard.

4. Why is Masetto interested in the gardening job?
(a) because he is so religious.
(b) for the freedoms it allows.
(c) because he has been out of work for a long time.
(d) because he is too ugly to work anywhere else.

5. Who takes Alatiel from the sailor after the murder of the other sailor?
(a) a prince.
(b) a bandit.
(c) a merchant.
(d) a magician.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who murders Pericone, Alatiel's first lover?

2. How does a prostitute deceive Pietro?

3. Who discovers what the monk is doing?

4. What does Abraham observe among the church leaders in Rome?

5. How does Alatiel manage to marry the King of Algarve after all?

(see the answer key)

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