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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Monna Giovanna's son want to possess?
(a) Frederico's horse.
(b) Frederico's daughter.
(c) Frederico's falcon.
(d) Frederico's farm.

2. What does Ghismunda do when she sees her father will not look for another husband for her?
(a) she joins a convent.
(b) she goes into the desert.
(c) she leaves her father's house.
(d) she seeks out a lover.

3. Why does the abbot never punish the monk?
(a) because the monk caught him with a boy.
(b) because he feared the community would reject the monastery.
(c) because he had the woman as well.
(d) because he could not prove what the monk had done.

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

5. What does Caterina beg her parents to allow her to do?
(a) to sleep in a room by herself.
(b) to sleep under an arbor in the garden.
(c) to sleep in another part of the house.
(d) to sleep on the balcony outside her bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Brother from the monastery of St. Anthony that is the same as the name of a vegetable?

2. After a night of making love, what happens to the couple?

3. How does Rabatta insult Bondone?

4. What happens to Pietro when he stays the night at the woman's house?

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

(see the answer key)

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