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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 Frederigo waste his fortune?
(a) on elaborate parties to impress Monna Giovanna.
(b) on jousts and other things to impress Monna Giovanna.
(c) on jewels and gifts to impress Monna Giovanna.
(d) on travel to exotic places to impress Monna Giovanna.

2. What friendship does Monna Giovanna's son strike up in the country?
(a) with Fernando.
(b) with Frederico.
(c) with Falco.
(d) with Giovanni.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gianni have the wife do before casting his spell?

2. With whom does Caterina fall in love?

3. Where does Tingoccio tell Meuccio he now is?

4. Why has Peronella's husband come home in the middle of the day?

5. Where does Peronella tell her lover to hide?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Explain the kind of work done by another ugly man by the name of Giotto di Bondone.

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

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

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

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