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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. What do the simple-minded Pietro and his wife want Don Gianni to do?
(a) cast a spell that will turn the wife into a mare.
(b) turn their donkey into a mare.
(c) cast a spell to enlarge their house.
(d) teach them how to cast spells.

2. What is the occupation of the man Peronella marries?
(a) a blacksmith.
(b) a stone mason.
(c) a carpenter.
(d) a wood cutter.

3. What happens when Ricciardo learns of Caterina's love for him?
(a) Caterina and Ricciardo begin an affair.
(b) Caterina and Ricciardo elope to Venice.
(c) Caterina plays hard to get.
(d) Ricciardo asks for her hand in marriage.

4. Where does Peronella tell her lover to hide?
(a) in the closet.
(b) behind the door.
(c) under the bed.
(d) in a barrel.

5. What does Monna Giovanna offer Frederico for the fortune he lost trying to please her?
(a) half her estate.
(b) a chance to please her now.
(c) money.
(d) her jewels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rabatta's profession?

2. What do Messer Forese da Rabatta and Giotto di Bondone have in common with the Baronci family?

3. What is the avocation of Gualtieri, the son of a wealthy marquis in Saluzzo?

4. What does Monna Giovanna determine to do?

5. What do the villagers know of the Brother from St. Anthony's who comes once a year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the daughter of Messer Lizio di Valbona, a rich knight, do that her father knows nothing about?

2. On the way home in the rain, what is Rabatta's insulting comment about his friend, Bondone?

3. What unusual thing causes Peronella and her lover to look for a place to hide him?

4. How does the affair between Caterina and Ricciardo work itself out?

5. What is the result of a man sneaking into an Abbess' cell after he has fallen in love with her?

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

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

8. How does Peronella turn the situation around and get her husband inside the barrel.

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

10. What happens that Don Gianni declares has broken the spell to change Pietro's wife into a mare?

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