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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 Judith pause outside of her city's gates?
(a) She is thinking of running away.
(b) She is worried what her mother will say.
(c) She can not face her husband's ire.
(d) She needs to think what she will say if people do not believe she and Abra killed Holofernes.

2. What does Artemisia eventually begin to resent Tuzia and her brothers for?
(a) She thinks they are happy to see her suffering.
(b) She thinks they are all spreading rumors about her.
(c) She thinks they are making fun of her for her illiteracy.
(d) She thinks they may have heard her being raped and not have come to help her.

3. What does Judith say is the main reason for Artemisia bringing charges against Tassi?
(a) He will keep assaulting women, potentially, if she does not speak out.
(b) He will continue taking commissions from her if she does not speak.
(c) He will eventually kill someone if she does not speak.
(d) It is sometimes necessary to seek this kind of revenge.

4. What does Tassi say when Artemisia asks if he can secure a commission for Orazio?
(a) He can definitely get a commission for Orazio.
(b) He knows the family offering the commission does not like Orazio's work.
(c) He knows the Pope does not like Orazio's work.
(d) He thought both he and she agreed that Orazio's work was bad.

5. What does Artemisia want to burn because Tassi has touched it?
(a) Her brush.
(b) Her palette.
(c) Her painting stool.
(d) Her easel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Abra's role in the murder of the Assyrian military leader?

2. Who is Susanna's husband?

3. Why is Artemisia sick with anxiety when she realizes it has been many weeks since she has bled in Part III?

4. What was the first thing Orazio asked Artemisia to do for him in the studio after her mother died?

5. How do all the masters paint the Elders in Susanna's story?

(see the answer key)

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