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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. With whom does Tingoccio have an affair?
(a) the woman who is the mother of Tingoccio's godson.
(b) Meuccio's wife.
(c) Meuccio's daughter.
(d) the wife of his nearest neighbor.

3. Why does the Brother from St. Anthony's monastery travel each year to a nearby village?
(a) to feed the poor.
(b) to take confessions.
(c) to collect alms.
(d) to give alms.

4. How does Frederigo waste his fortune?
(a) on travel to exotic places to impress Monna Giovanna.
(b) on jewels and gifts to impress Monna Giovanna.
(c) on elaborate parties to impress Monna Giovanna.
(d) on jousts and other things to impress Monna Giovanna.

5. What does Monna Giovanna offer Frederico for the fortune he lost trying to please her?
(a) half her estate.
(b) her jewels.
(c) a chance to please her now.
(d) money.

6. While Peronella's husband is inside cleaning the barrel, what is Peronella doing?
(a) scolding her husband for leaving work.
(b) bending over the barrel to supervise.
(c) rushing her lover out of the house.
(d) trying to think where her lover will get the money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What happens when Ricciardo learns of Caterina's love for him?
(a) Caterina and Ricciardo elope to Venice.
(b) Caterina plays hard to get.
(c) Caterina and Ricciardo begin an affair.
(d) Ricciardo asks for her hand in marriage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After her son dies, what does Monna Giovanna decide to do?

2. What does Caterina say she wants to hear at night?

3. What does Monna Giovanna discover after dinner?

4. What do the two men who know Brother Onion plan to do?

5. Who discovers the two lovers the next morning in their compromising situation?

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