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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women tell Alibech?
(a) there are plenty of men who will help her serve God.
(b) she is a stupid girl who trusts men.
(c) she cannot serve God with their husbands.
(d) they want to learn how to serve God, too.

2. Who is Alatiel?
(a) the wife of the sultan of Babylon.
(b) the daughter of the sultan of Babylon.
(c) the favorite concubine of the sultan of Babylon.
(d) the princess betrothed to the sultan of Babylon.

3. Why is Masetto interested in the gardening job?
(a) because he is too ugly to work anywhere else.
(b) because he is so religious.
(c) because he has been out of work for a long time.
(d) for the freedoms it allows.

4. What does Rustico tell Alibech to do?
(a) watch as he removes his clothes.
(b) lift her skirts to let him see her sin.
(c) do like him and remove her clothes.
(d) cover her eyes while he undresses.

5. How does Ser Ciappelletto get a priest to absolve him?
(a) he makes a large donation to the church.
(b) he becomes seriously penitent for his past sins.
(c) he lies about everything in his past life.
(d) he confesses under an assumed name.

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

7. When Abraham returns, what does he want to do that surprises Giannotto?
(a) he wants to convert to Christianity.
(b) he wants to confront a rabbi.
(c) he wants to reaffirm his Jewish faith.
(d) he wants to become a monk.

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

9. Who does Abraham observe on his trip?
(a) the clergy.
(b) the children.
(c) other Jews.
(d) the laity.

10. What do the nuns begin to do with Masetto?
(a) hide his clothes while he is sleeping.
(b) watch him work without his shirt on.
(c) take advantage of him to find out what sex is like.
(d) make him dance for them in the garden.

11. 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.

12. What do the nuns do because they think Masetto is deaf?
(a) poke fun at him.
(b) teach him to write.
(c) peek at him in his bath.
(d) use sign language.

13. 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 that she has a hell to hide the Devil.
(c) she tells them how she has been serving God.
(d) she tells them that she fell in love with a monk.

14. What horrible thing does Tancredi do to his daughter?
(a) he takes away all her clothes so she cannot go outside.
(b) he chops up Guiscardo's heart and has it prepared for her.
(c) he makes her witness the beheading of Guiscardo.
(d) he lockes her in her room until he dies.

15. With whom does Isabetta fall in love and begin an affair?
(a) the tutor who comes to give her lessons.
(b) the man who tends the family gardens.
(c) Lorenzo, the man who takes care of much of the family business.
(d) the man who grooms her brothers' horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What results from Ser Ciappelletto's confession?

2. How does Monna Lisetta respond to the idea that the Angel Gabriel wants her?

3. What does the foolish Alibech think she is doing when she allows the monk to have his way with her?

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

5. Why does Constanzo leave the battle and return to the duke's house?

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