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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 are Don Gianni di Barolo and Pietro da Tresanti?
(a) competitors for the same lover.
(b) brothers-in-law.
(c) bankers who extort money from the poor.
(d) businessmen who deal in trading goods.

2. What is the Baronci family of Florence noted for?
(a) their ugliness.
(b) their beauty.
(c) their charity.
(d) their poverty.

3. What happens when Brother Onion reaches into the box supposedly containing Gabriel's feather?
(a) he faints dead away.
(b) he becomes frightened.
(c) he falls to pieces.
(d) he pulls out a piece of charcoal.

4. With whom does Tingoccio have an affair?
(a) the woman who is the mother of Tingoccio's godson.
(b) the wife of his nearest neighbor.
(c) Meuccio's wife.
(d) Meuccio's daughter.

5. What does Peronella's lover do while she supervises her husband?
(a) runs out of the house and disappears.
(b) uses her position to pleasure them both.
(c) eats some of Peronella's apple pie.
(d) looks for his underwear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gianni have the wife do before casting his spell?

2. What does Monna Giovanna's son want to possess?

3. What euphemism does the story teller use for "the thing you are ashamed to mention among men?"

4. After her son dies, what does Monna Giovanna decide to do?

5. After Tingoccio dies, what does he do that he had promised Meuccio in life?

Short Essay Questions

1. When collecting alms from a nearby village, what does Brother Onion use to get the people to give freely?

2. When Calandrino finds what he thinks are magic rocks, what do Bruno and Buffalmacco decide to do.

3. How does Don Gianni di Barolo have his way with the wife of Pietro da Tresanti while Pietro looks on?

4. How are Caterina and Ricciardo found out?

5. What is the sad situation with Frederigo, a man of noble birth?

6. What happens when the two men come to confess to Brother Onion what they had done.?

7. Describe the painters, Calandrino, Bruno, and Buffalmacco.

8. Explain the kind of work done by another ugly man by the name of Giotto di Bondone.

9. Why do several nuns come to the Abbess' door in the middle of the night?

10. How does Calandrino learn that the magic has gone out of the rocks?

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