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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the brothers do to Isabetta's lover?
(a) they have his put into prison.
(b) they have him taken out of the city and killed.
(c) they have him transferred to Paris.
(d) they have him tarred and feathered.

4. Who murders Pericone, Alatiel's first lover?
(a) his cousin, Alberto.
(b) the captain of a ship.
(c) his brother, Marato.
(d) the sultan's soldiers.

5. What does Nuto suggest Masetto do to get the job?
(a) let the abbess see him without his shirt.
(b) pretend he is a deaf mute.
(c) dress in fine clothes to apply for the job.
(d) wear a bandana over his face.

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. How does Isabetta learn of Lorenzo's fate?
(a) she accidentally finds his shallow grave.
(b) an angel tells her in a dream.
(c) a witness to his murder comes to tell her.
(d) he comes to her in a dream.

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

12. Why do the nuns keep Masetto in the convent for many years?
(a) he knows too much about their activities.
(b) he fathers children the nuns say are orphans.
(c) he agrees to stay if they stop wanting sex.
(d) he speaks and they think God has worked a miracle.

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

14. What does Rustico soon discover?
(a) that his willpower is not strong enough to resist Alibech.
(b) that he can watch Alibech at her bath.
(c) that Alibech snores and talks in her sleep.
(d) that Alibech is not as beautiful as he first thought.

15. Where does the monk take a woman?
(a) to an inn.
(b) to his cell.
(c) to a garden.
(d) to her bedroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rustico tell Alibech she must do to serve God?

2. What does Tancredi have done to Guiscardo after he learns of his affair with Ghismunda?

3. Why does the abbot never punish the monk?

4. What results from Ser Ciappelletto's confession?

5. Who determines who will tell the stories on each successive night?

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