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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. How will Judith and Abra signal to those inside the city to open the gate?
(a) By ringing the bell.
(b) By turning their key.
(c) By knocking the secret knock.
(d) By whistling.

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

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

4. What did Artemisia think about how other women might treat her before her experiences with the midwives, when she realized she was wrong?
(a) She thought other women would be indifferent to her.
(b) She thought other women would mentor her.
(c) She thought other women would show her compassion because they share a place in the world.
(d) She thought other women would hate her.

5. Who does Tarquin grip in one of Artemisia's paintings?
(a) Judith.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Lucretia.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artemisia seem to lose her ability to do following the rape?

2. Why does Orazio grow angry with Artemisia while he quizzes her on her painting techniques and materials?

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 does Judith carry the Assyrian military leader's head in?

(see the answer key)

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