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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the road, how do Rabatta and Bondone dress?
(a) as penniless peasants.
(b) as knights.
(c) as traveling jesters.
(d) as magistrates.

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

3. What does Bondone say people would think after looking at Rabatta?
(a) he looks more like a chimney sweep.
(b) he has shifty eyes like a criminal.
(c) he is too simple to know his alphabet.
(d) he is so ugly he has to slip up on water to get a drink.

4. What does Monna Giovanna determine to do?
(a) invite Frederico to dinner.
(b) ask Frederico to marry her.
(c) take her son back to the city.
(d) ask Frederico for his falcon.

5. Why does Giannotto think it is so necessary to convert Abraham?
(a) unless he converts Abraham, he cannot go to heaven himself.
(b) unless Abraham converts to Christianity, he is sure to go to hell.
(c) he cannot be openly friends with Abraham as long as he is a Jew.
(d) he needs to have saved one soul before the year is out.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the monk take a woman?

2. Why does Berto della Massa go to Venice and take on the identity of Brother Alberto?

3. When does Masetto return to his village of Lamporecchio?

4. What results from Ser Ciappelletto's confession?

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

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