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

2. Who murders Pericone, Alatiel's first lover?
(a) his cousin, Alberto.
(b) his brother, Marato.
(c) the captain of a ship.
(d) the sultan's soldiers.

3. How can Berto so easily convince people that he has taken on the vows of poverty and chastity?
(a) because he is such an accomplished liar.
(b) because he never speaks.
(c) because he genuinely wants to change.
(d) because no one in Vanice knows him.

4. How does Isabetta learn of Lorenzo's fate?
(a) he comes to her in a dream.
(b) a witness to his murder comes to tell her.
(c) an angel tells her in a dream.
(d) she accidentally finds his shallow grave.

5. Why does Berto della Massa go to Venice and take on the identity of Brother Alberto?
(a) he plans to steal gold from the church.
(b) he is such a liar that no one will have dealings with him.
(c) he is wanted for murder.
(d) he wants to find out what monks do in their cells.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men actually had Alatiel before she was married?

2. When does Masetto return to his village of Lamporecchio?

3. Who discovers what the monk is doing?

4. When Abraham returns, what does he want to do that surprises Giannotto?

5. Why does the abbot never punish the monk?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Andreuccio become the victim of a scam in Naples?

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

3. How does Masetto come to the attention of the abbess?

4. What is the quandary the Florentine brothers find themselves in when Ciappelletto becomes so ill?

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

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

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

8. How does Ghismunda end her life?

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

10. Describe the happy occasion for Alatiel as she prepares to get married.

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