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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes the women of Alibech's town to laugh when she returns after the deaths of her family members?
(a) she tells them that she met God in the desert.
(b) she tells them how she has been serving God.
(c) she tells them that she fell in love with a monk.
(d) she tells them that she has a hell to hide the Devil.

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

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

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

5. Because of her vanity, what does Monna Lisetta do that soon allows all of Venice to know about her affair?
(a) she forgets to draw her drapes.
(b) she tells another priest at confession.
(c) she tells a neighbor about Gabriel's love.
(d) she has an artist paint a picture of her and Gabriel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What results from Ser Ciappelletto's confession?

3. After the trouble at sea, what happens to the men who love Alatiel?

4. What does Giannotto di Civigni want to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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