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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 villagers know of the Brother from St. Anthony's who comes once a year?
(a) his life story since he was born in their village.
(b) nothing except his words.
(c) his reputation as a great story teller.
(d) what they have heard from travelers.

2. Who are Calandrino, Bruno and Buffalmacco?
(a) three monks who learn alchemy.
(b) three wizards to look for the magic heliotrope.
(c) three simpletons who work as painters.
(d) three friends who rob travelers.

3. What do two men who know Brother Onion well suspect?
(a) that he has run out of stories to tell.
(b) that he is trying to trick the villagers.
(c) that he is going to work a miracle.
(d) that he does not really have a feather to show.

4. What do Messer Forese da Rabatta and Giotto di Bondone have in common with the Baronci family?
(a) they are ugly.
(b) they are Napalitans.
(c) they are Romans.
(d) they are religious.

5. What does Caterina beg her parents to allow her to do?
(a) to sleep under an arbor in the garden.
(b) to sleep in a room by herself.
(c) to sleep on the balcony outside her bedroom.
(d) to sleep in another part of the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Caterina fall in love?

2. When Rabatta and Bondone meet on the road to Florence, what happens to cause them to seek shelter?

3. What is the passion of Frederigo, a man of noble birth who squanders his fortune for the love of Monna Giovanna?

4. How does he explain the charcoal?

5. How does Peronella explain the man who is in the barrel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reply that Bondone gives Rabatta after his insult?

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

3. What is the result of Frederigo's attempts to impress Monna Giovanna?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Brother Onion recover when he takes the charcoal out of the box instead of the feather?

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

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

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