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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 warning does Don Gianni give the couple before he casts his spell?
(a) if they look the spell will be broken.
(b) if they speak, the spell will be broken.
(c) if they write anything the spell will be broken.
(d) if they do not comply the spell will be broken.

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

3. What is the relationship between Tingoccio Mini and Meuccio di Tura?
(a) they are brothers-in-law.
(b) they are cousins.
(c) they are mortal enemies.
(d) they are best friends.

4. With whom does Caterina fall in love?
(a) Ricciardo Manardi da Brettinoro, an enemy of Lizio di Valbona.
(b) Berto della Massa, a notorious liar.
(c) Juan Carlos da Vinci, a cousin of Lizio di Valbona.
(d) Ricciardo Manardi da Brettinoro, a friend of Lizio di Valbona.

5. What promise does Brother Onion make to the villagers this time?
(a) to show them how to walk on water.
(b) to show them frakincense and myrrh.
(c) to show them a relic of the cross.
(d) to show them a feather from the wings of Gabriel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two men who know Brother Onion plan to do?

2. What does Bondone say people would think after looking at Rabatta?

3. When Calandrino finds what he thinks are magic stones, how do his friends play a trick on him?

4. What does Peronella do shortly after her marriage?

5. When Gualtieri finally marries, what does he decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How are Caterina and Ricciardo found out?

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