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

2. What does Frederico, now a poor man, determine to do when Monna Giovanna comes calling?
(a) declare his love for her.
(b) cook the falcon to serve her for dinner.
(c) order her off his property.
(d) hide from her.

3. Why has Peronella's husband come home in the middle of the day?
(a) to get something to eat.
(b) to look for some tools he forgot that morning.
(c) to spend more time with his wife.
(d) to sell the barrel that takes up room in their house.

4. What do the simple-minded Pietro and his wife want Don Gianni to do?
(a) cast a spell that will turn the wife into a mare.
(b) turn their donkey into a mare.
(c) teach them how to cast spells.
(d) cast a spell to enlarge their house.

5. Why is the marquis displeased with his son?
(a) Gualtieri has shown no interest in marriage.
(b) Gualtieri has a lover who is married.
(c) Gualtieri has a preference for men.
(d) Gualtieri has a desire to become a friar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Brother Onion reaches into the box supposedly containing Gabriel's feather?

2. What does the abbess intend to do when she confronts the wayward nun?

3. What is Rabatta's profession?

4. How does Frederigo waste his fortune?

5. With whom does Tingoccio have an affair?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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