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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. Who is in love with Francoise?

2. What does the Friar in Story Forty-eight trick a new bride into doing?

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

4. What does the President's wife eat before she dies?

5. Why does the Duke in Story Fifty-one put a young girl to death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jambique end her affair?

2. What does Friar De Vale do when asked to cure a girl of her laziness?

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

4. What is the discussion about after Longarine's fourth story?

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

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

7. When does the narrative stop? Why?

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

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

10. How do Jean Pierre and his lover die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Symbolism is a very prevalent literary device used by Marguerite de Navarre in these stories. What are some of these symbols, and how does their presence affect the course of the plots?

Essay Topic 3

What elements in society were being shown in a satirical light in this book? Explain.

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