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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. How does Artemisia feel about her prospects right after she rebuffs Tassi's vulgar overtures?
(a) He is only back where she started.
(b) She is ruined forever.
(c) She is more determined to strike out on her own.
(d) She is more determined to make her partnership with her father work.

2. What does Tassi ask Artemisia to do in Part II that thrills her at first?
(a) Take his assistant's place.
(b) Run away to Florence with him.
(c) Start her own shop.
(d) Come to paint in his studio.

3. What makes Orazio angry when Artemisia tells him Tassi is looking into the Quirinal commission?
(a) She tells him she will not work for him any longer when she tells him this information.
(b) She giggles when she tells him this information.
(c) She uses the word "us."
(d) She tells him the payment, which is uncouth.

4. How did Artemisia's mother Prudentia die?
(a) In childbirth.
(b) From cancer.
(c) In a carriage accident.
(d) From the Plague.

5. Why does Daniel believe Susanna over the Elders?
(a) Susanna has witnesses to back up her story.
(b) Susanna paid Daniel more than the Elders did.
(c) The Elders' stories did not match up.
(d) Susanna spoke better than they did.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Artemisia's brothers have that she envies?

2. What does Artemisia think could be "the answer" to the Holy Child's curls in her portrait in Part I?

3. Where is the commission from that Orazio covets that he wants Artemisia to help him secure?

4. What does Artemisia hide that she uses to paint alone sometimes?

5. What is the word on the street about Orazio's Susanna painting?

(see the answer key)

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