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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (183 - 235).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the Elders command Susanna to do in the garden?
(a) Invite them into her house.
(b) Pick apples.
(c) Take off her robe.
(d) Get back in the bath.

3. What does Tassi say in Part I that Artemisia thinks of when she hears him coming into her studio in the end of Part II?
(a) There's a lot you can get away with when no one else is watching.
(b) Waste not, want not.
(c) Your light will always shine bright, even in dim spaces.
(d) I will always wait for you.

4. What does one Elder tell her he will do if Susanna does not take off her robe?
(a) Tell the world that she cavorted in her garden with a man who was not her husband, which would mean death for Susanna.
(b) Take it off for her.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Beat her.

5. What does Tassi tell Artemisia she was long before he touched her?
(a) A child.
(b) A good girl.
(c) A woman.
(d) Damaged goods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the taller Elder who comes to Susanna in her garden?

2. What does Orazio at first try to dismiss Artemisia's rape by Tassi as?

3. Who does Tarquin grip in one of Artemisia's paintings?

4. What does Artemisia seem to lose her ability to do following the rape?

5. What does the slightest shift do to perspective, according to Artemisia?

(see the answer key)

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