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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the discovery of Saladin, the Sultan of Babylon?
(a) his treasury is empty.
(b) his people are giving him too much respect.
(c) he has more money than he can use.
(d) his wives are wearing old clothes.

4. What happens to Pietro when he stays the night at the woman's house?
(a) he ends up naked on the street and locked out of the house.
(b) he is arrested by the Naples police for soliciting.
(c) he is tied up, robbed, and dumped into a canal.
(d) he becomes ill from poison in his food.

5. When does Masetto return to his village of Lamporecchio?
(a) after the death of the abbess.
(b) after he has finished landscaping the garden.
(c) after several of the nuns get pregnant.
(d) after a new, younger gardener arrives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Giannotto di Civigni want to do?

3. What results from Ser Ciappelletto's confession?

4. Where does Abraham insist on going to find out about Christianity?

5. Why is Alatiel not happy with the duke after they go to Athens?

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