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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Alatiel manage to marry the King of Algarve after all?
(a) her father, the sultan, triples her dowry.
(b) she keeps her secrets from everyone.
(c) she convinces the King of Algarve that she is still a virgin.
(d) she promises to produce a male heir.

2. What do the women tell Alibech?
(a) she is a stupid girl who trusts men.
(b) she cannot serve God with their husbands.
(c) there are plenty of men who will help her serve God.
(d) they want to learn how to serve God, too.

3. What name does Alberto give Monna Lisetta that indicates how bright she is?
(a) Lady Copernicus.
(b) Lady Quickwit.
(c) Lady Genius.
(d) Lady Halfwit

4. What does Rustico tell Alibech she must do to serve God?
(a) to chastize the devil with her tongue.
(b) to sleep naked in Rustico's bed.
(c) to give herself to God's priest.
(d) to put the devil back into hell.

5. Who does Alibech eventually meet?
(a) a monk named Rustico.
(b) a priest named Quantico.
(c) a thief named Rustico.
(d) a friar named Alfonzo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Musciatto Franzesi choose Ser Ciappelletto to handle debts and trade?

2. What does Rustico soon discover?

3. What causes the women of Alibech's town to laugh when she returns after the deaths of her family members?

4. Why does Nuto leave the convent where he was the gardener?

5. Because Monna Lisetta is so beautiful, what does Brother Alberto desire to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What means of entertainment do the young people devise?

2. Who takes Andreuccio into a scheme to make easy money?

3. What do the brothers think when they hear Ciappelletto's confession?

4. How does Andreuccio turn the tales on the two robbers?

5. How dies Alatiel end up on the island of Majorca?

6. What happens when the secret of Masetto's affair with the nun gets out?

7. What happens that returns Alibech to her village?

8. Describe the character of Ciappelletto who is put in charge of the affairs of Musciatto Franzesi .

9. What does Alibech learn from Rustico?

10. After becoming a widow shortly after her marriage, what does Ghismunda see her father, Tancredi, has no plans of doing?

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