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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 many men actually had Alatiel before she was married?
(a) nine.
(b) twenty.
(c) five.
(d) seventeen.

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 that she met God in the desert.
(d) she tells them how she has been serving God.

3. Who is the next rival for the favor of Alatiel?
(a) a prince who is a cousin of the duke.
(b) a soldier in the prince's honor guard.
(c) the emperor of Constantinople.
(d) a duke who is a cousin to the prince.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What arrangement does Alberto say is necessary for Gabriel to sleep with Monna Lisetta?

2. What does the foolish Alibech think she is doing when she allows the monk to have his way with her?

3. Who does Alibech eventually meet?

4. What does Abraham observe among the church leaders in Rome?

5. Who does Pietro take up with after he loses all his money and clothes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Ghismunda end her life?

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

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