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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What results after Monna Lisetta believes Alberto's story and agrees to comply?
(a) Alberto has to find a suitable place.
(b) they carry on an affair for quite some time.
(c) Monna Lisetta only complies when wearing a blindfold.
(d) Alberto gets cold feet and calls it off.

2. How does the monk trick the abbot?
(a) he lets the woman out through his window.
(b) he convinces the abbot he is seeing things.
(c) he brings another woman for the abbot.
(d) he leaves the woman alone in his cell.

3. Who does Pietro take up with after he loses all his money and clothes?
(a) some sorcerers.
(b) some grave robbers.
(c) some highwaymen.
(d) some gamblers.

4. 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 church, the state, or the royalty.
(c) the law of the Christians, the Jews, or the Hindus.
(d) the law of the Jews, Saracens, or Christians.

5. Why is Alatiel not happy with the duke after they go to Athens?
(a) he never allows her to leave the villa in Athens.
(b) he grows fat and lazy in Athens.
(c) he never leaves her side in Athens.
(d) he has a wife in Athens and keeps her as a mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tiring of Monna Lisetta's vain confessions, what does Brother Alberto do?

2. What is the premise of the novel that results in rounds of story telling?

3. What happens to Marato on board a ship?

4. How does Isabetta learn of Lorenzo's fate?

5. How does Ciappelletto's confession later hoodwink the church?

(see the answer key)

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