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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orazio tell Artemisia that Tassi is already doing to discredit her?
(a) Preparing to leave the country.
(b) Sowing his seeds, meaning spreading rumors about her.
(c) Drawing rude pictures of her.
(d) Paying people to speak against her.

2. What does Artemisia spend more time painting in her work than faces?
(a) Backgrounds.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Hands.
(d) Birds.

3. What does Orazio say about how Tassi can help their family?
(a) He can write good reviews of their work for the papers.
(b) He can make the family's fortune by throwing commissions their way.
(c) He can speak to the Pope about giving them more work.
(d) He can help them move to France, where there is more work.

4. What does Judith do with the Assyrian military leader to get him to let his guard down?
(a) Poses as his sister.
(b) Seduces him and has sex with him.
(c) Poses as his lawyer.
(d) Cooks for him.

5. What does Artemisia tell Tassi he has damaged of her father's?
(a) His reputation.
(b) His property.
(c) His heart.
(d) His easel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artemisia's mother tell her Judith had to decide right before she killed the Assyrian military leader?

2. What does Tassi tell Artemisia about his opinion of her father's friendship?

3. What liquids does Artemisia mix for her paintings in Part III?

4. What had Artemisia expected Tassi to propose when he asked her to share his studio, but that he failed to propose?

5. Why do Judith and Abra laugh as they wait outside the gates of their city?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Daniel rule in favor of Susanna and against the Elders?

2. What is Abra's role in Judith's plan with Holofernes?

3. What does Susanna say for herself at her stoning?

4. What does Tassi propose to Artemisia in Part III that she is hopeful about?

5. What shocks Artemisia in the immediate aftermath of Tassi's crime against her?

6. What does Tassi tell Artemisia when she tells him she is going to ask her father to bring charges against him?

7. What does Artemisia do to escape from Tassi when he comes to see her in her studio the first time following the assault?

8. What does Tassi do to Artemisia in Part III that haunts Artemisia forever afterwards?

9. What does Tassi say to Artemisia immediately after she rebuffs his sexual overtures in Part III?

10. How and when did Artemisia become her father's apprentice?

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