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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 does the abbess mistake for her veil in the darkness?
(a) her lover's pants.
(b) a table cloth.
(c) the bed sheet.
(d) a pair of bloomers.

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

3. What poses a problem for the two men who plan to play a trick on Brother Onion?
(a) they do not know which room is his.
(b) his servant who guards the room.
(c) there are a group of monks standing outside his door.
(d) his door is locked and there is no window.

4. What is the avocation of Gualtieri, the son of a wealthy marquis in Saluzzo?
(a) he drinks every day in the tavern.
(b) he chases all the pretty girls in the village.
(c) he paints pictures of unclothed young girls.
(d) he spends his days hunting and hawking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Frederigo waste his fortune?

2. What is Peronella's occupation?

3. What do the simple-minded Pietro and his wife want Don Gianni to do?

4. What is Rabatta's profession?

5. How are Peronella and her lover surprised one afternoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Although Frederigo would give anything to Monna Giovanna, why is it impossible for him to give her the falcon?

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

3. How are Caterina and Ricciardo found out?

4. When two of Brother Onion's friends see him in the village proclaiming he will show a feather from the angel Gabriel, what do they plan to do?

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

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

7. What plan does Caterina devise in order to be with Ricciardo?

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

9. Explain how Peronella gets away with having a lover.

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

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