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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. Why is Masetto interested in the gardening job?
(a) for the freedoms it allows.
(b) because he is so religious.
(c) because he has been out of work for a long time.
(d) because he is too ugly to work anywhere else.

2. What do the brothers do to Isabetta's lover?
(a) they have him tarred and feathered.
(b) they have him transferred to Paris.
(c) they have his put into prison.
(d) they have him taken out of the city and killed.

3. Who takes Alatiel from the sailor after the murder of the other sailor?
(a) a magician.
(b) a merchant.
(c) a bandit.
(d) a prince.

4. Why does Abraham conclude that the Christian religion is strong and will last?
(a) it accomodates Jews.
(b) it leads the way in educating the people.
(c) it survives the excesses of the clergy.
(d) it has very beautiful churches.

5. Why is Masetto sleeping in the garden when the abbess finds him and begins to lust after him?
(a) he is lazy and is taking rest in the orchard.
(b) he has been servicing eight nuns and is tired.
(c) he has been drinking the nun's wine.
(d) he has been working too hard in the orchard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ghismunda not marry at a time when other girls her age have taken husbands?

2. What do the nuns do because they think Masetto is deaf?

3. What is Monna Lisetta's character like?

4. Why does Giannotto think it is so necessary to convert Abraham?

5. Where does Ser Ciappelletto find lodging in Burgundy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that returns Alibech to her village?

2. How does Brother Alberto take advantage of Lisetta whom he calls Lady Halfwit?

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

4. How does Alatiel eventually end up with the king of Algarve?

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

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

7. How does Ciappelletto become aware of the brothers' situation?

8. What does Alibech learn from Rustico?

9. Why is it so easy for Berto della Massa to take on the persona of Brother Alberto, a minor friar?

10. What eventually transpires between Masetto and one of the nuns?

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