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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 Monna Lisetta respond to the idea that the Angel Gabriel wants her?
(a) she is willing to sacrifice for her soul.
(b) she does not understand what Alberto is telling her.
(c) she thinks it is natural since she is so beautiful.
(d) she is shocked and tells Alberto to leave at once.

2. 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 has a hell to hide the Devil.
(b) she tells them that she fell in love with a monk.
(c) she tells them how she has been serving God.
(d) she tells them that she met God in the desert.

3. Who discovers what the monk is doing?
(a) the abbot of the monastery.
(b) the gardener.
(c) the woman's husband.
(d) the other monks in the monastery.

4. What does Pietro end up with that is worth more than the money he lost?
(a) a gold crown.
(b) a bag of silver.
(c) a ruby ring.
(d) a prize horse.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ciappelletto becomes gravely ill, what do the brothers think?

2. Why does the first holy man send Alibech away?

3. Why does Abraham conclude that the Christian religion is strong and will last?

4. What does Ghismunda do when she sees her father will not look for another husband for her?

5. Why does Berto della Massa go to Venice and take on the identity of Brother Alberto?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Ghismunda end her life?

9. What do the village women tell Alibech after she explains how she put the devil back into hell with Rustico.

10. Why have the young people of the novel left Florence and gone into the country?

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