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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. How does Calandrino know that he no longer has magic powers?
(a) when his wife breaks a mirror over his head.
(b) when his wife finds the stones and throws them out.
(c) when his wife leaves him for a lover.
(d) when his wife can see him and scolds him for being late.

2. What does Monna Giovanna discover after dinner?
(a) she has just eaten the very thing she desired.
(b) Frederico cannot part with his falcon.
(c) the falcon has gotten away.
(d) Frederico has sold his falcon.

3. While Peronella's husband is inside cleaning the barrel, what is Peronella doing?
(a) scolding her husband for leaving work.
(b) bending over the barrel to supervise.
(c) rushing her lover out of the house.
(d) trying to think where her lover will get the money.

4. 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 write anything the spell will be broken.
(c) if they do not comply the spell will be broken.
(d) if they speak, the spell will be broken.

5. With whom does Tingoccio have an affair?
(a) the wife of his nearest neighbor.
(b) Meuccio's wife.
(c) the woman who is the mother of Tingoccio's godson.
(d) Meuccio's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don Gianni di Barolo have that shows his wealth?

2. What promise does Brother Onion make to the villagers this time?

3. What is the name of the Brother from the monastery of St. Anthony that is the same as the name of a vegetable?

4. What is Rabatta's profession?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How are Caterina and Ricciardo found out?

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

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