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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 do the nuns keep Masetto in the convent for many years?
(a) he knows too much about their activities.
(b) he speaks and they think God has worked a miracle.
(c) he fathers children the nuns say are orphans.
(d) he agrees to stay if they stop wanting sex.

2. What do the nuns begin to do with Masetto?
(a) make him dance for them in the garden.
(b) take advantage of him to find out what sex is like.
(c) watch him work without his shirt on.
(d) hide his clothes while he is sleeping.

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

4. How does Saladin honor Melchisedech?
(a) he takes him to the court of Babylon.
(b) he makes him his chamberlain.
(c) he makes him his regent.
(d) he builds him a palace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ghismunda not marry at a time when other girls her age have taken husbands?

2. Where does Alibech set out on her quest?

3. What does Rustico soon discover?

4. Eventually what happens to Rustico?

5. For what is Andreuccio di Pietro famous?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What ultimately happens after Ciappelletto dies?

8. After becoming a widow shortly after her marriage, what does Ghismunda see her father, Tancredi, has no plans of doing?

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

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

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