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

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

3. What results from Ser Ciappelletto's confession?
(a) he is forced to give up all his wealth.
(b) he survives for another twenty years.
(c) he is discovered to be a liar.
(d) he becomes thought of as a saint.

4. What do the women tell Alibech?
(a) there are plenty of men who will help her serve God.
(b) they want to learn how to serve God, too.
(c) she is a stupid girl who trusts men.
(d) she cannot serve God with their husbands.

5. After Ghismunda chooses Guiscardo as her lover, what complicates their relationship?
(a) they must meet in secret.
(b) Guiscardo's father is Tancredi's mortal enemy.
(c) Ghismunda becomes pregnant.
(d) they have nowhere to meet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Alibech find surprising?

3. What happens to Pietro when he stays the night at the woman's house?

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

5. Who does Abraham observe on his trip?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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. Why does Isabetta cry over a pot of basil?

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

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

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

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

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

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