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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. Why is the first person imprisoned in Rolandine's castle?
(a) So she won't cheat on her husband.
(b) So she won't kill again.
(c) So she won't get married.
(d) So she won't take revenge on the King.

2. For what is the preoccupied man's wife imprisoned?
(a) Bigamy.
(b) Larceny.
(c) Libel.
(d) Adultery.

3. What is done to the Priest in Story Forty-one when what he does to a girl is discovered?
(a) He is beaten.
(b) He is demoted.
(c) He is fired.
(d) He is killed.

4. Why does an apothecary's wife give him medicine?
(a) To make him live longer.
(b) To make him love her.
(c) To cure his cough.
(d) To kill him.

5. Why does Jean Pierre isolate himself?
(a) His wife cheats on him.
(b) He becomes ill.
(c) His wife dies.
(d) The woman he loves refuses him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Priest in Story Forty-one put on a girl?

2. What does the wife in Story Fifty-five sell with her husband's horse?

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

4. What does the cheap man in Story Fifty-two think he is stealing?

5. What causes the man in Longarine's fourth story to come back to his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the lady in Parlamente's seventh tale reject a suitor?

2. How are the priest and the Friar discovered in their crime?

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

4. What is the story of the Countess about?

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

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

7. What does the wife in Story Fifty-five do to get around a stipulation in her husband's will?

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

9. Why does the Lord in Story Fifty-seven keep a glove on his cloak?

10. How do Jean Pierre and his lover die?

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