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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. How is the abandoned woman treated when she returns to civilization?

2. How is the wild wife punished?

3. What does the wild wife do after running away?

4. Who tells the story of Jambique?

5. Why does the maid in Story Forty-five allow her rapes to continue?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does the narrative stop? Why?

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

3. What does the will in Story Fifty-five declare?

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

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

6. Why was Rolandine's castle originally built?

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

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

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

10. What is the story of the Countess about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the stipulations placed on the storytellers in this book, and how do you think this affected the stories that were chosen to be told?

Essay Topic 2

The separation of classes is quite a significant theme in this book. What are these classes, and how does this separation affect the characters belonging to them?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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