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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the foolish girl, Alibech, want to do?
(a) prove there is no God.
(b) learn about sex.
(c) to find one who can teach the ways of the Lord.
(d) become a warrior for God.

2. How does Calandrino know that he no longer has magic powers?
(a) when his wife can see him and scolds him for being late.
(b) when his wife leaves him for a lover.
(c) when his wife finds the stones and throws them out.
(d) when his wife breaks a mirror over his head.

3. Where does Abraham insist on going to find out about Christianity?
(a) to a monastery.
(b) to Rome.
(c) to Antioch.
(d) to Jerusalem.

4. What euphemism does the story teller use for "the thing you are ashamed to mention among men?"
(a) the nightingale.
(b) the flower.
(c) the branch.
(d) the bower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Masetto interested in the gardening job?

2. What does Messer Lizio di Valbona tell his wife Caterina's hand was wrapped around when he found them?

3. What retort does the wayward nun have for the abbess?

4. Why does the first holy man send Alibech away?

5. What is the passion of Frederigo, a man of noble birth who squanders his fortune for the love of Monna Giovanna?

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