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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Monna Giovanna discover after dinner?
(a) Frederico has sold his falcon.
(b) Frederico cannot part with his falcon.
(c) the falcon has gotten away.
(d) she has just eaten the very thing she desired.

2. Where does Tingoccio tell Meuccio he now is?
(a) in Heaven eating ambrosia with the angels.
(b) in Purgatory explaining away his past sins.
(c) in limbo waiting for his judgment.
(d) in Hell for having an affair.

3. What do the simple-minded Pietro and his wife want Don Gianni to do?
(a) teach them how to cast spells.
(b) cast a spell that will turn the wife into a mare.
(c) turn their donkey into a mare.
(d) cast a spell to enlarge their house.

4. 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 drinks every day in the tavern.
(c) he paints pictures of unclothed young girls.
(d) he spends his days hunting and hawking.

5. How does the wayward nun respond to the abbess' reprimand?
(a) she is unrepentant.
(b) she dies suddenly.
(c) she is immediately contrite.
(d) she hides her face in shame.

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

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

8. What is the transgression of the abbess who is told in the middle of the night about a nun who has been caught with her lover?
(a) the abbess worships the Devil.
(b) the abbess takes opium.
(c) the abbess also has a lover.
(d) the abbess is a vicious gossip.

9. How does he explain the charcoal?
(a) that it is a relic from the destruction of Jerusalem.
(b) that it is a relic of the destruction of Sodom.
(c) that it is a relic of St. Lorenzo who was burned at the stake.
(d) that it is a relic from a fire where Jesus warmed his hands.

10. Who are Calandrino, Bruno and Buffalmacco?
(a) three wizards to look for the magic heliotrope.
(b) three simpletons who work as painters.
(c) three friends who rob travelers.
(d) three monks who learn alchemy.

11. What does Bondone say people would think after looking at Rabatta?
(a) he is too simple to know his alphabet.
(b) he looks more like a chimney sweep.
(c) he is so ugly he has to slip up on water to get a drink.
(d) he has shifty eyes like a criminal.

12. What retort does the wayward nun have for the abbess?
(a) that she is also guilty and wears a man's pants on her head.
(b) that her lover is the brother of the abbess' lover.
(c) that the abbess just does not know what she has missed.
(d) that the abbess wears a table cloth on her head.

13. What do the men leave in Brother Onion's room?
(a) a map to the place where they plan to hide the feather.
(b) a bag full of onions.
(c) a box with a piece of charcoal in it.
(d) a book with blank pages.

14. What is the relationship between Tingoccio Mini and Meuccio di Tura?
(a) they are best friends.
(b) they are brothers-in-law.
(c) they are mortal enemies.
(d) they are cousins.

15. What is Peronella's occupation?
(a) an innkeeper.
(b) a spinner of wool.
(c) a seamstress.
(d) a stone mason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the passion of Frederigo, a man of noble birth who squanders his fortune for the love of Monna Giovanna?

2. How does Calandrino know that he no longer has magic powers?

3. Why does the Brother from St. Anthony's monastery travel each year to a nearby village?

4. After the death of her husband, where does Monna Giovanna take her son?

5. When Don Gianni visit the house of the poor Pietro da Tresanti, what is the situation?

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