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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. When Abraham returns, what does he want to do that surprises Giannotto?
(a) he wants to become a monk.
(b) he wants to convert to Christianity.
(c) he wants to confront a rabbi.
(d) he wants to reaffirm his Jewish faith.

2. Who determines who will tell the stories on each successive night?
(a) the group by popular vote.
(b) the person chosen as queen or king for the next night.
(c) the last person to tell a stroy the night before.
(d) the oldest of the 7 women and 3 men.

3. Why does the first holy man send Alibech away?
(a) she is too stupid to learn his truths.
(b) she is beautiful and he cannot trust himself around her.
(c) she asks too many questions disturbing his meditations.
(d) he tells her everything he has to tell.

4. Why does Musciatto Franzesi choose Ser Ciappelletto to handle debts and trade?
(a) He fears the unscrupulous behavior of the Burgundians.
(b) He thinks Ser Ciappelletto is a bit stupid.
(c) He wants a totally honest man to run his business.
(d) He thinks Ser Ciappelletto is rich enough not to steal from him.

5. How does the monk trick the abbot?
(a) he lets the woman out through his window.
(b) he brings another woman for the abbot.
(c) he leaves the woman alone in his cell.
(d) he convinces the abbot he is seeing things.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nuto leave the convent where he was the gardener?

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

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

4. Where does Ser Ciappelletto find lodging in Burgundy?

5. Who murders Pericone, Alatiel's first lover?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Alibech learn from Rustico?

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

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

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

10. What bothers Brother Alberto about one of the women who comes to him for confession?

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