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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 is the occupation of the man Peronella marries?
(a) a wood cutter.
(b) a carpenter.
(c) a stone mason.
(d) a blacksmith.

2. On the road, how do Rabatta and Bondone dress?
(a) as traveling jesters.
(b) as knights.
(c) as magistrates.
(d) as penniless peasants.

3. How do Gualtieri and his wife get back together?
(a) his children plead on their mother's behalf.
(b) the marquis orders Gualtieri to take her back.
(c) he honors her after she passes all his tests.
(d) she disguises herself and he takes her as a lover.

4. Who discovers the two lovers the next morning in their compromising situation?
(a) Caterina's mother.
(b) Messer Lizio di Valbona.
(c) Caterina's brother.
(d) the butler.

5. Where does Peronella tell her lover to hide?
(a) in a barrel.
(b) in the closet.
(c) under the bed.
(d) behind the door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Monna Giovanna discover after dinner?

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

3. What is Bondone's profession?

4. What story does Gianni tell to excuse himself from taking Pietro's bed that night?

5. What is the transgression of the abbess who is told in the middle of the night about a nun who has been caught with her lover?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When collecting alms from a nearby village, what does Brother Onion use to get the people to give freely?

7. When two of Brother Onion's friends see him in the village proclaiming he will show a feather from the angel Gabriel, what do they plan to do?

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

9. Besides his homely countenance, describe what Messer Forese da Rabatta is noted for.

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

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