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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Alatiel manage to marry the King of Algarve after all?
(a) she promises to produce a male heir.
(b) she convinces the King of Algarve that she is still a virgin.
(c) her father, the sultan, triples her dowry.
(d) she keeps her secrets from everyone.

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

3. What happens to Marato on board a ship?
(a) he is thrown overboard.
(b) he is shot.
(c) he is hung.
(d) he is talked into selling Alatiel.

4. Where does Ser Ciappelletto find lodging in Burgundy?
(a) with two Florentine brothers.
(b) with a needy widow.
(c) with two Franciscan friars.
(d) in an expensive inn that Musciatto pays for.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pietro take up with after he loses all his money and clothes?

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

3. Who does Alibech eventually meet?

4. Why does Abraham conclude that the Christian religion is strong and will last?

5. What does the foolish Alibech think she is doing when she allows the monk to have his way with her?

(see the answer key)

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