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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poses a problem for the two men who plan to play a trick on Brother Onion?
(a) there are a group of monks standing outside his door.
(b) they do not know which room is his.
(c) his servant who guards the room.
(d) his door is locked and there is no window.

2. What do the villagers know of the Brother from St. Anthony's who comes once a year?
(a) his reputation as a great story teller.
(b) nothing except his words.
(c) what they have heard from travelers.
(d) his life story since he was born in their village.

3. When the weather does not change, what do Rabatta and Bondone decide to do?
(a) stay the night.
(b) rent a carriage.
(c) continue their trek.
(d) go back the way they came.

4. What does the abbess mistake for her veil in the darkness?
(a) a pair of bloomers.
(b) her lover's pants.
(c) a table cloth.
(d) the bed sheet.

5. What does Monna Giovanna's son want to possess?
(a) Frederico's horse.
(b) Frederico's daughter.
(c) Frederico's farm.
(d) Frederico's falcon.

6. On the road, how do Rabatta and Bondone dress?
(a) as traveling jesters.
(b) as magistrates.
(c) as knights.
(d) as penniless peasants.

7. How does Ricciardo avoid being killed for his transgression?
(a) he agrees to marry Caterina.
(b) he agrees to pay a bag of gold.
(c) he jumps naked from the balcony and runs away.
(d) he pretends that he has lost him memory.

8. What is the Baronci family of Florence noted for?
(a) their ugliness.
(b) their beauty.
(c) their charity.
(d) their poverty.

9. After her son dies, what does Monna Giovanna decide to do?
(a) marry Frederico.
(b) join a convent.
(c) kill Frederico.
(d) buy Frederico a new falcon.

10. Where do the two men who played the trick go the next day?
(a) to wait outside the church.
(b) to hear Brother Onion's sermon.
(c) to hide in the confessional.
(d) to wait up in a tree.

11. How does Peronella explain the man who is in the barrel?
(a) that he is a carpenter repairing the barrel.
(b) that he is a magician looking for a trick barrel.
(c) that he is a buyer who is examining the barrel.
(d) that he is a musician looking for a barrel drum.

12. After the death of her husband, where does Monna Giovanna take her son?
(a) to the country near Frederigo's farm.
(b) to live with his grandfather.
(c) to the south of Italy.
(d) on an extended trip.

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

14. What does the abbess intend to do when she confronts the wayward nun?
(a) give her a stern lecture.
(b) take her confession.
(c) console her.
(d) send her and everyone back to bed.

15. What does Caterina say she wants to hear at night?
(a) the nightingale.
(b) the crickets.
(c) the troubadors.
(d) the breeze in the trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rabatta's profession?

2. What warning does Don Gianni give the couple before he casts his spell?

3. What does Frederico, now a poor man, determine to do when Monna Giovanna comes calling?

4. What does Peronella's lover do while she supervises her husband?

5. What do two men who know Brother Onion well suspect?

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