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

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

3. What happens when Ricciardo learns of Caterina's love for him?
(a) Caterina and Ricciardo begin an affair.
(b) Caterina plays hard to get.
(c) Ricciardo asks for her hand in marriage.
(d) Caterina and Ricciardo elope to Venice.

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

5. What does Peronella's lover do while she supervises her husband?
(a) uses her position to pleasure them both.
(b) eats some of Peronella's apple pie.
(c) looks for his underwear.
(d) runs out of the house and disappears.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Frederigo leave the city for his farm?

3. What is Ricciardo's plan after Caterina makes her bed on the balcony?

4. When does Peronella's lover come to visit her?

5. After a night of making love, what happens to the couple?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. Explain how Peronella gets away with having a lover.

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

6. How does Don Gianni di Barolo have his way with the wife of Pietro da Tresanti while Pietro looks on?

7. How are Caterina and Ricciardo found out?

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

9. What is the result of Frederigo's attempts to impress Monna Giovanna?

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

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