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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. With whom is the Friar De Vale in love?
(a) A widow.
(b) A princess.
(c) A judge's wife.
(d) A chambermaid.

2. Jean Pierre dies of __________.
(a) Starvation.
(b) Blood loss.
(c) Suicide.
(d) A venereal disease.

3. Who tries to console Brimbaudier when his wife is ill?
(a) A priest.
(b) A maid.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His daughter.

4. What does Brimbaudier make?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Barrels.
(c) Mead.
(d) Saddles.

5. How does the Countess refer to the weeks she keeps men in her room?
(a) Church.
(b) Prison.
(c) Testing.
(d) Heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the friar and priest hope to get from the crime that got them arrested?

2. Why does Jean Pierre isolate himself?

3. The mother of a young girl thinks De Vale can cure her daughter of ____________.

4. The woman in Story Fifty-nine uses her husband's affair for _________.

5. Why does Brimbaudier say his wife survived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Rolandine's castle originally built?

2. How does the Duchess in Story Seventy ruin her life?

3. What does the man in Story Forty-four do when he is told that the church was founded on foolishness?

4. What is strange about Longarine's tale in Story Sixty-two?

5. Why does Jean Pierre's lover finally accept his advances?

6. How does the lady in Story Fifty-nine get her husband to take her to court in style?

7. How does the monk in the last story cover his sin?

8. What does the man who loves Francoise do for her?

9. What does the woman in Saffredent's fifth story do to stop her husband from kissing the maids?

10. What does the maid in Story Sixty-nine trick her master into doing?

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