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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. What is Monna Lisetta's character like?
(a) she is very belligerent.
(b) she is very vain.
(c) she is very intelligent.
(d) she in very humble.

2. Why does the King determine that no one should ever know about all the men and unfortunate circumstances in Alatiel's life?
(a) because the men who knew who she was are all dead.
(b) because she always wore a veil.
(c) because she never told anyone who she was.
(d) because she could not speak the language of her captors.

3. When does Masetto return to his village of Lamporecchio?
(a) after the death of the abbess.
(b) after a new, younger gardener arrives.
(c) after he has finished landscaping the garden.
(d) after several of the nuns get pregnant.

4. What causes the women of Alibech's town to laugh when she returns after the deaths of her family members?
(a) she tells them that she fell in love with a monk.
(b) she tells them that she has a hell to hide the Devil.
(c) she tells them that she met God in the desert.
(d) she tells them how she has been serving God.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tancredi discover his daughter's affair with Guiscardo?

2. Why does Saladin go to Melchisedech?

3. What does a monk see that ignites his temptation?

4. How does a prostitute deceive Pietro?

5. What does Saladin plan to do when he visits Melchisedech?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the ambition of Alibech and where does it take her?

2. How does Tancredi discover the affair between Ghismunda and Guiscardo?

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

4. What ultimately happens after Ciappelletto dies?

5. What happens to Alatiel after she is taken to safety?

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

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

8. Why does Isabetta cry over a pot of basil?

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

10. What are the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Lorenzo, the lover of Isabetta?

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