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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does Alberto tell Monna Lisetta?
(a) that the Angel Gabriel wants to speak with her.
(b) that the Angel Gabriel has fallen in love with her.
(c) that the Angel Gabriel wants her to sleep with Alberto.
(d) that the Angel Gabriel has been watching her undress.

2. Where does Pietro go to ply his trade?
(a) Rome.
(b) Tuscany.
(c) Florence.
(d) Naples.

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

4. What does Abraham observe among the church leaders in Rome?
(a) great piety and devotion to Jesus and the saints.
(b) great humility with vows of poverty and celibacy.
(c) greed, lust, lechery, and many other things that a man of God should not be a part of.
(d) strong examples of how to live a clean life.

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

6. Why does Saladin go to Melchisedech?
(a) he is a high priest.
(b) he has a map of great treasure.
(c) he is a Jewish money lender.
(d) he is a wise fortune teller.

7. What does Alibech find surprising?
(a) that using her hell does not hurt her.
(b) that Rustico's Devil keeps coming back.
(c) that serving God is so pleasurable.
(d) that the Devil cannot enter her hell very often.

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

9. What is the discovery of Saladin, the Sultan of Babylon?
(a) he has more money than he can use.
(b) his people are giving him too much respect.
(c) his wives are wearing old clothes.
(d) his treasury is empty.

10. Who does Alibech eventually find?
(a) a holy woman who heals the sick.
(b) a holy woman who lives in a cave.
(c) a holy man who lives in a hut.
(d) a holy man who teaches in a synagogue.

11. How many men actually had Alatiel before she was married?
(a) nine.
(b) seventeen.
(c) twenty.
(d) five.

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

13. What is Monna Lisetta's character like?
(a) she in very humble.
(b) she is very intelligent.
(c) she is very belligerent.
(d) she is very vain.

14. Eventually, who does Ghismunda marry as arranged by her father?
(a) her father's best friend.
(b) a duke's son who dies shortly after the wedding.
(c) a duke who beats her regularly.
(d) a merchant who does not require a dowry.

15. What is the premise of the novel that results in rounds of story telling?
(a) 7 women and 3 children are banished from Florence society.
(b) 7 men and 3 young women leave Rome to escape the plague.
(c) 7 women and 7 men go on holiday together.
(d) 7 young women and 3 men leave Florence to escape the plague.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the monk trick the abbot?

2. With whom does Isabetta fall in love and begin an affair?

3. Why does Abraham conclude that the Christian religion is strong and will last?

4. How does Saladin honor Melchisedech?

5. Why is Masetto interested in the gardening job?

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