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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Tancredi have done to Guiscardo after he learns of his affair with Ghismunda?
(a) Guiscardo is sent to prison.
(b) Guiscardo is made to pay money for his transgression.
(c) Guiscardo is forced into exile.
(d) Guiscardo is murdered and his heart cut out.

4. Who is Alatiel's next lover after Constanzo?
(a) a king.
(b) a general.
(c) a merchant.
(d) a baron.

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

6. 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 reaffirm his Jewish faith.
(d) he wants to confront a rabbi.

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

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

9. What causes the women of Alibech's town to laugh when she returns after the deaths of her family members?
(a) she tells them how she has been serving God.
(b) she tells them that she has a hell to hide the Devil.
(c) she tells them that she fell in love with a monk.
(d) she tells them that she met God in the desert.

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

11. What does Ghismunda do when she sees her father will not look for another husband for her?
(a) she joins a convent.
(b) she goes into the desert.
(c) she seeks out a lover.
(d) she leaves her father's house.

12. Why does Ghismunda not marry at a time when other girls her age have taken husbands?
(a) Her father refuses to look for a husband for her.
(b) She is homely and the men do not consider her.
(c) She is caring for her father, Tancredi, in his old age.
(d) She never accepts the men her father brings home.

13. Who determines to discover the real identity of Monna Lisetta's angel?
(a) her in-laws.
(b) the abbot of the monastery.
(c) the next door neighbors.
(d) her brothers.

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

15. When Ciappelletto becomes gravely ill, what do the brothers think?
(a) no one would blame them for turning him out of their house.
(b) they can steal his money after he dies.
(c) no priest would ever absolve a man as evil as Ciappelletto.
(d) they might have to take him back to Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Giannotto think it is so necessary to convert Abraham?

2. Who does Pietro take up with after he loses all his money and clothes?

3. Where does Alibech sleep?

4. What story does Alberto tell Monna Lisetta?

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

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