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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do two men who know Brother Onion well suspect?
(a) that he has run out of stories to tell.
(b) that he does not really have a feather to show.
(c) that he is trying to trick the villagers.
(d) that he is going to work a miracle.

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

3. How are Peronella and her lover surprised one afternoon?
(a) Peronella's husband has an accident at work.
(b) Peronella's husband comes to spy on her.
(c) Peronella's husband comes home unexpectedly.
(d) Peronella's husband sends his friend to see her.

4. What does Peronella do shortly after her marriage?
(a) she opens a shop.
(b) she takes a lover.
(c) she buys a new house.
(d) she collects and sells barrels.

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

6. Why does Frederigo leave the city for his farm?
(a) the bill collectors will not find him there.
(b) he will not have to see Monna Giovanna.
(c) it is a better place for his falcon.
(d) it is cheaper to live there.

7. What is Rabatta's profession?
(a) he is a master sculptor.
(b) he is a noted university teacher.
(c) he is a cleric.
(d) he is an expert in jurisprudence.

8. What suddenly happens to Monna Giovanna's son?
(a) he becomes ill.
(b) he runs away to the city.
(c) he falls in love with a farm girl.
(d) he commits a crime.

9. What euphemism does the story teller use for "the thing you are ashamed to mention among men?"
(a) the branch.
(b) the flower.
(c) the nightingale.
(d) the bower.

10. What does Monna Giovanna determine to do?
(a) invite Frederico to dinner.
(b) take her son back to the city.
(c) ask Frederico to marry her.
(d) ask Frederico for his falcon.

11. What is the avocation of Gualtieri, the son of a wealthy marquis in Saluzzo?
(a) he chases all the pretty girls in the village.
(b) he spends his days hunting and hawking.
(c) he drinks every day in the tavern.
(d) he paints pictures of unclothed young girls.

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

13. Why has Peronella's husband come home in the middle of the day?
(a) to sell the barrel that takes up room in their house.
(b) to look for some tools he forgot that morning.
(c) to get something to eat.
(d) to spend more time with his wife.

14. How does Rabatta insult Bondone?
(a) by saying that he should paint his face to hide the ugly.
(b) by saying he is so ugly a mirror breaks when he looks in.
(c) by saying a look at him and no one would guess he is an artist.
(d) by saying it is good that he is not an artist's model.

15. What happens when Brother Onion reaches into the box supposedly containing Gabriel's feather?
(a) he faints dead away.
(b) he becomes frightened.
(c) he pulls out a piece of charcoal.
(d) he falls to pieces.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Peronella's husband is inside cleaning the barrel, what is Peronella doing?

2. Where do the two men who played the trick go the next day?

3. What friendship does Monna Giovanna's son strike up in the country?

4. What does Monna Giovanna's son want to possess?

5. How does Ricciardo avoid being killed for his transgression?

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