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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. When does Artemisia begin to imagine Judith and Susanna talking to her?
(a) Right after her rape.
(b) Right after her father beats her.
(c) Right before she leaves home.
(d) Right after her brothers berate her.

2. How did Artemisia ruin a canvass when she was five or six years old?
(a) By getting dirt from her hands on it.
(b) By accidentally placing it too close to the fire.
(c) By tearing it.
(d) By painting on it without properly preparing it first.

3. What shocks Artemisia about Tassi's presence in her studio?
(a) He is shorter than she expected.
(b) Her brothers are there with him.
(c) Tuzia has allowed him to come up to the studio unaccompanied to be with Artemisia.
(d) Her father is there with him.

4. Who is the Assyrian military leader Judith ingratiates herself to?
(a) Attila.
(b) Radicula.
(c) Molocha.
(d) Holofernes.

5. What does Artemisia think her mother knew about all the men who painted Susanna?
(a) They could not understand a woman's feelings in a moment like the one Susanna experienced.
(b) They never got the shading of the garden right.
(c) They knew how monstrous men could be.
(d) They always rushed their painting and their painting was terrible for that.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tassi do to Artemisia's beloved painting of Susanna?

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

3. What is Tassi supposed to help Artemisia with specifically in her painting?

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

5. What does Abra accuse Judith of dreaming of?

(see the answer key)

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