Some sample questions from this category:
* Which of these is NOT one of the ten storytellers?
* How many stories are there in the Decameron?
* What city are the storytellers from?
* Now that you're warmed up....What is the theme of the first day of story telling?
* Which of the 10 storytellers has special privilege to go last every day and to not have to stay within the chosen topic?
* What is Father Gianni doing when Compare Pietro speaks out and thus ruins the spell to turn his wife into a mare (IX,10)?
* What condition does Masetto da Lamporecchio claim to have in order to be the gardener at a convent (III,1)?
* What does the final monk that Alibech lives with get her to help him do (III,10)?
* Who does Brother Alberto say his is in order to lie with a vain lady of Venice (IV,2)?
* What does Ellisabetta grow in the pot that contains her lover's head (which she digs up after her brothers kill him)(IV,5)?
* When Simona and Pasquino die from rubbing sage leaves on their teeth, what is discovered to be the cause of their deaths (IV,7)?
* What vision does Nastagio degli Onesti see that eventually prompts the lady he loves to marry him (V,8)?
* In the 9th story of the 6th day, who is the poet that delivers the witty remark?
* Which of these stories from Boccaccio's Decameron is NOT included in Passolini's film version?
* In the fourth tale of the third day, Panfilo tells the story of how a man came to sleep with a friar's wife. How was he able to do this without attracting the attention of the woman's husband?
* In the fourth tale of the first day, Dioneo tells a story of corrupt clergy. A young monk sleeps with a woman and he finds out that the abbot was outside of the room and heard everything. What happens to the monk?
* Where in Italy does this story begin?
* For what reason do the ten storytellers leave the city?
* How many stories are in The Decameron?
* Who is the King/Queen of the first day's storytelling?
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