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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tool does Artemisia miss when she can not find it in Part II?
(a) Her best brush.
(b) Her favorite palette knife.
(c) Her salting set.
(d) Her pigment grinder.

2. What does Artemisia tell Tassi he has a terrible habit of doing in the studio?
(a) Blocking her best light.
(b) Spilling the paint.
(c) Tracking dirt into the studio.
(d) Bursting in like a thunderclap.

3. What does Artemisia say her father often does more than the work of painting?
(a) Sign his name and take his gold.
(b) Eat luxuriously.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Chase women.

4. What advice does Tassi give Artemisia that she is pleased to hear?
(a) To trust her heart in her painting.
(b) To strike out on her own and get her own studio.
(c) To try to appeal to Tuzia to take her out of the house more.
(d) To go to the council of elders and report her father's abuse.

5. Where does Susanna bathe in the story Artemisia's mother tells her?
(a) Her garden.
(b) Her bathroom in her house.
(c) The public baths in Florence.
(d) The bathroom of a hotel.

6. What subject is Artemisia doing a secret painting of her own of?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) Susanna and the Elders.
(c) David.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

7. What does Artemisia's mother tell her about the beast?
(a) The beast is always hungry.
(b) The beast may look like a friend of the family.
(c) You will always hear the beast breathing.
(d) You never see the best until he is upon you.

8. Why does Susanna not call out for her husband when she feels under threat from the Elders in her garden?
(a) Her husband is away.
(b) Her husband is dead.
(c) Her husband is having an affair with the maid in the house.
(d) Her husband is deaf.

9. What question does Tassi ask Artemisia repeatedly in Part II?
(a) Why does she not get her own studio?
(b) Why does she not use brighter colors?
(c) Why does she not talk to her mother more often?
(d) Why is she so blue?

10. Who is the teacher Orazio has hired to help Artemisia with her painting?
(a) Giovanna Silvestri.
(b) Agostino Tassi.
(c) Silvio Banucci.
(d) Marto Valli.

11. What vegetable does Artemisia most often have to chop for dinner?
(a) Onions.
(b) Kale.
(c) Carrots.
(d) Peppers.

12. How did Orazio react to Artemisia's mother's stories?
(a) He never listened.
(b) He claimed her stories as his own.
(c) He loved her stories.
(d) He used to love her stories, but he forbade stories to be told in the house after her death.

13. Where is Judith from?
(a) Assyria.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Florence.
(d) Bethulia.

14. What does Tuzia make Artemisia do when they go to market?
(a) Walk behind her like she is the servant.
(b) Never talk to anyone.
(c) Pay for all the food.
(d) Carry the basket.

15. Where is the commission from that Orazio covets that he wants Artemisia to help him secure?
(a) The palace.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) The Banucci family's house.
(d) The fancy restaurant on their street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abra accuse Judith of dreaming of?

2. Who does Artemisia model one of the terrible Elders in her painting of Susanna after?

3. Why does Orazio grow angry with Artemisia while he quizzes her on her painting techniques and materials?

4. What does Tassi ask Artemisia to do in Part II that thrills her at first?

5. What was Artemisia's mother's full name?

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