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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 236 - 292).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What liquids does Artemisia mix for her paintings in Part III?
(a) Oil and glue.
(b) Chalk and glue.
(c) Oil and chalk.
(d) Oil and water.

2. What is one particularly gruesome and humiliating false accusation Tassi's defense makes against Artemisia and Orazio?
(a) That Orazio and Artemisia have slept together.
(b) That Orazio cuts Artemisia and uses her blood in the paintings.
(c) That Orazio makes Artemisia sleep with men for money.
(d) That Orazio and Artemisia have had a child together.

3. What does Tassi say about Artemisia's own Susanna painting the first time he comes to her studio after she rebuffs his advances?
(a) Susanna looks mad.
(b) Susanna is a tease.
(c) Susanna is about to die.
(d) Susanna looks brave.

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

5. How does Judith's husband die?
(a) He gets a fever and dies.
(b) His brother kills him.
(c) He is killed in a carriage accident.
(d) He goes off to fight the Assyrians and never returns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Artemisia and Orazio things about Tassi that could help Artemisia's case?

2. Where does Susanna bathe in the story Artemisia's mother tells her?

3. Who did Artemisia's mother teach her the sibyls were?

4. 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?

5. What is the new commission that Orazio asks Artemisia to model for him in Part II?

(see the answer key)

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