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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 123 - 182).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Susanna do when she senses the Elders watching her in the bath?
(a) Cries for her servants.
(b) Immediately gets out of the bath to go and stab the Elders watching her.
(c) Cries for her husband.
(d) Holds her breath and dips below the surface of the water.

2. What secret does Artemisia tell Tassi in Part II?
(a) She plans on running away from home soon.
(b) People have started asking her to do her own commissions.
(c) She does all the painting that her father signs his name to.
(d) She signs her own name on all of Orazio's paintings, but in a place where no one notices it.

3. Who is Susanna's husband?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Jedicai.
(c) Joaquim.
(d) Heldibron.

4. What does Judith say to the Assyrian military leader that prompts him to tell her it will be a shame to kill her?
(a) She is a woman of the Hebrews.
(b) She has been posing as a male solder in his army.
(c) She is his sister.
(d) She is a widow.

5. How do all the masters paint the Elders in Susanna's story?
(a) As monsters.
(b) As brothers.
(c) As respected gentlemen.
(d) As priests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tassi tell Artemisia he would do with her if she shared his studio?

2. What vegetable does Artemisia most often have to chop for dinner?

3. What does Artemisia think her mother knew about all the men who painted Susanna?

4. What does Artemisia spend more time painting in her work than faces?

5. How did Artemisia's father ignore propriety with her?

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