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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Ricciardo's plan after Caterina makes her bed on the balcony?
(a) to climb the wall and join her in her bed.
(b) to watch her in the moonlight.
(c) to sing love songs to her beneath the balcony.
(d) to get to the balcony through a window.

3. After a night of making love, what happens to the couple?
(a) they cannot find their clothes.
(b) they wait until Caterina's father leaves the house.
(c) they slip back into the house.
(d) they fall asleep.

4. Why is the marquis displeased with his son?
(a) Gualtieri has a desire to become a friar.
(b) Gualtieri has shown no interest in marriage.
(c) Gualtieri has a preference for men.
(d) Gualtieri has a lover who is married.

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

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

7. What promise does Brother Onion make to the villagers this time?
(a) to show them a relic of the cross.
(b) to show them how to walk on water.
(c) to show them frakincense and myrrh.
(d) to show them a feather from the wings of Gabriel.

8. Where does Peronella tell her lover to hide?
(a) under the bed.
(b) in a barrel.
(c) behind the door.
(d) in the closet.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. What happens when the two friends tell Brother Onion what they had done?
(a) they agree that everything worked out well.
(b) Brother Onion gives them absolution.
(c) Brother Onion kicks both of them.
(d) they all have a good laugh.

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

13. What is the name of the Brother from the monastery of St. Anthony that is the same as the name of a vegetable?
(a) Brother Kale.
(b) Brother Onion.
(c) Brother Endive.
(d) Brother Carrot.

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

15. For what crime does Tingoccio tell Meuccio that there is no real punishment?
(a) for having the affair with the mother of his godson.
(b) for stealing loaves of bread.
(c) for beating his wife.
(d) for lusting after beautiful girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men leave in Brother Onion's room?

2. Why do the villagers look forward to the arrival of the monk from St. Anthony's monastery?

3. What does Monna Giovanna discover after dinner?

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

5. What is Bondone's profession?

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