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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Amador pursue?

2. What does the woman in Story Eighteen allow a man to do as his first test?

3. How does the man in Longarine's story punish himself?

4. What does Simontaut say all women want to do?

5. The woman in Story Twenty-seven tells her unwanted lover to wait for her in __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Story Twenty about?

2. What happens in the story about d'Avannes?

3. How does Bonnivet convince a woman to be his lover?

4. What does Seigneur de La Tremouille discover?

5. How does the priest in Story Twenty-nine hide his affair?

6. Why does the group have to wait at the abbey for so long?

7. What is the story with Roncex about?

8. What does Marie Hereot do?

9. What is Normerfide's first story about?

10. What ends Rolandine's banishment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did these people choose to compile these stories, and how did this reasoning affect the tone of the stories presented?

Essay Topic 2

How were the styles of the different storytellers different from each other, and how did these differences display themselves in the themes of the stories?

Essay Topic 3

The pursuit of happiness was a common theme found in this book. What stories embodied this theme, and how did that pursuit affect the characters involved?

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