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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. Why does Brimbaudier say his wife survived?

2. What is ruined after the cheap man steals something in Story Fifty-two?

3. Why does the man in Story Sixty-three reject the advances of women?

4. Who tries to protect the girl put to death in Story Fifty-one?

5. Who walks in on a princess and a duke sleeping together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the preoccupied man do when his wife in imprisoned?

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

3. What is the story of the Countess about?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the President of Grenoble stop his wife's affair?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There were many characters in this book who were manipulated and persuaded to do things they did not want to do. What were some of these instances, and how were those characters affected by the manipulation?

Essay Topic 2

There are many secrets made, kept, and divulged in this book. What are some of these secrets, and how does their placement in the stories affect the plots of those stories and the characters involved in the secrets?

Essay Topic 3

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

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