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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. Who determines to discover the real identity of Monna Lisetta's angel?
(a) the abbot of the monastery.
(b) her in-laws.
(c) her brothers.
(d) the next door neighbors.

2. What does Alibech find surprising?
(a) that using her hell does not hurt her.
(b) that serving God is so pleasurable.
(c) that the Devil cannot enter her hell very often.
(d) that Rustico's Devil keeps coming back.

3. Who does Alatiel eventually meet?
(a) the King of France who recognizes her.
(b) the King of Cyprus who recognizes her.
(c) the Prince of Wales who recognizes her.
(d) the sultan of Brunei who recognizes her.

4. How does Ser Ciappelletto get a priest to absolve him?
(a) he confesses under an assumed name.
(b) he lies about everything in his past life.
(c) he makes a large donation to the church.
(d) he becomes seriously penitent for his past sins.

5. What does the foolish Alibech think she is doing when she allows the monk to have his way with her?
(a) hiding the devil from Rustico's hell.
(b) keeping the devil from leaving Rustico's cell.
(c) taking the lust out of Rustico's devil.
(d) putting Rustico's devil into her hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Alibech set out on her quest?

2. What is the premise of the novel that results in rounds of story telling?

3. How does Monna Lisetta meet Brother Alberto?

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

5. What causes the women of Alibech's town to laugh when she returns after the deaths of her family members?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the handsome Masetto manage to become the gardener for a convent of eight nuns and an abbess?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Ghismunda end her life?

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

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