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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 is trying to trick the villagers.
(b) that he is going to work a miracle.
(c) that he has run out of stories to tell.
(d) that he does not really have a feather to show.

2. What reason does Caterina give for wanting to change her sleeping arrangements?
(a) she says she is all grown up now.
(b) she says she likes to sleep under the stars.
(c) she says the fresh night air is good for her.
(d) she says it is too hot in her bed and she cannot sleep.

3. What does Gianni have the wife do before casting his spell?
(a) she has to put a blindfold on her husband.
(b) she has to remove her clothes and prance around the room.
(c) she has to whinny like a mare.
(d) she has to remove her clothes and get down on all fours.

4. When Rabatta and Bondone meet on the road to Florence, what happens to cause them to seek shelter?
(a) it starts to rain.
(b) the night falls suddenly.
(c) highwaymen are spotted.
(d) a high wind begins to blow.

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

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

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

8. What is the occupation of the man Peronella marries?
(a) a stone mason.
(b) a blacksmith.
(c) a wood cutter.
(d) a carpenter.

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

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

11. When Gualtieri finally marries, what does he decide to do?
(a) test his wife to see if she is faithful.
(b) share his wife with his cousin.
(c) lock his wife away in a tower.
(d) kill his wife and marry a young girl.

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

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

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

15. After Tingoccio dies, what does he do that he had promised Meuccio in life?
(a) show himself to the evil monk in the village.
(b) return to light candles in the church.
(c) return to tell what it is like after death.
(d) haunt Meuccio's wife.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Rabatta insult Bondone?

3. How does Frederigo waste his fortune?

4. What does Monna Giovanna determine to do?

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

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