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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. Where does Tingoccio tell Meuccio he now is?
(a) in Hell for having an affair.
(b) in Heaven eating ambrosia with the angels.
(c) in limbo waiting for his judgment.
(d) in Purgatory explaining away his past sins.

2. What retort does the wayward nun have for the abbess?
(a) that the abbess wears a table cloth on her head.
(b) that the abbess just does not know what she has missed.
(c) that she is also guilty and wears a man's pants on her head.
(d) that her lover is the brother of the abbess' lover.

3. What does Messer Lizio di Valbona tell his wife Caterina's hand was wrapped around when he found them?
(a) Ricciardo's dagger.
(b) her beloved nightingale.
(c) the bedpost.
(d) a bouquet of roses.

4. How does he explain the charcoal?
(a) that it is a relic of the destruction of Sodom.
(b) that it is a relic from a fire where Jesus warmed his hands.
(c) that it is a relic of St. Lorenzo who was burned at the stake.
(d) that it is a relic from the destruction of Jerusalem.

5. When the weather does not change, what do Rabatta and Bondone decide to do?
(a) rent a carriage.
(b) continue their trek.
(c) stay the night.
(d) go back the way they came.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Calandrino know that he no longer has magic powers?

3. What do the men leave in Brother Onion's room?

4. Where do the two men who played the trick go the next day?

5. What suddenly happens to Monna Giovanna's son?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Monna Giovanna's son becomes seriously ill, what does he tell her might make him better?

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

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

5. What does Gualtieri do to assure himself that his wife, Griselda, is a worthy woman?

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

7. Besides his homely countenance, describe what Messer Forese da Rabatta is noted for.

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

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

10. How does the nun know that the abbess cannot punish her?

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