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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Orazio grow angry with Artemisia while he quizzes her on her painting techniques and materials?
(a) Because she gets everything right, and he likes to be able to berate her for errors.
(b) Because she forgets how to describe grinding pigments.
(c) Because she does not identify the linseed oil correctly.
(d) Because she makes many errors when talking about brushstrokes.

2. What does Artemisia often do to make it easier for her to move around while she paints?
(a) Does not wear shoes.
(b) Wears pants.
(c) Hikes up her skirts.
(d) Wears a short-sleeved shirt.

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

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?
(a) There's a lot you can get away with when no one else is watching.
(b) Your light will always shine bright, even in dim spaces.
(c) I will always wait for you.
(d) Waste not, want not.

5. What does Tuzia make Artemisia do when they go to market?
(a) Carry the basket.
(b) Pay for all the food.
(c) Walk behind her like she is the servant.
(d) Never talk to anyone.

6. 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 knew how monstrous men could be.
(c) They always rushed their painting and their painting was terrible for that.
(d) They never got the shading of the garden right.

7. What is the new commission that Orazio asks Artemisia to model for him in Part II?
(a) Susanna.
(b) Judith.
(c) The Madonna.
(d) Rebecca.

8. What is Artemisia inspired to do concerning her own body after she and Tassi kiss?
(a) Explore her body for reasons of sexual pleasure.
(b) Dress more flamboyantly.
(c) Try to lose weight.
(d) Try to gain weight.

9. What kind of oil does Artemisia routinely use in her painting?
(a) Corn.
(b) Linseed.
(c) Olive.
(d) Artichoke.

10. How old was Artemisia when her mother died?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 8.
(d) 17.

11. What advice does Tassi give Artemisia that she is pleased to hear?
(a) To trust her heart in her painting.
(b) To try to appeal to Tuzia to take her out of the house more.
(c) To strike out on her own and get her own studio.
(d) To go to the council of elders and report her father's abuse.

12. How old is Artemisia in Part I?
(a) 14.
(b) 20.
(c) 17.
(d) 12.

13. What do the Elders command Susanna to do in the garden?
(a) Take off her robe.
(b) Pick apples.
(c) Invite them into her house.
(d) Get back in the bath.

14. What question does Tassi ask Artemisia repeatedly in Part II?
(a) Why does she not talk to her mother more often?
(b) Why is she so blue?
(c) Why does she not get her own studio?
(d) Why does she not use brighter colors?

15. Why does Artemisia feel she can paint her own Susanna after having a few lessons with Tassi?
(a) Tassi has shown her how to grind the pigments correctly.
(b) Tassi has told her he will pay her for this painting.
(c) Tassi has taught her perspective in a way she did not understand before.
(d) Tassi has given her the confidence she needed to paint her own work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rank task does Orazio make Artemisia do in Part II?

2. Who does Artemisia model one of the terrible Elders in her painting of Susanna after?

3. How does Artemisia make the best of being forced to do menial tasks away from her painting studio?

4. In which piazza is there an octagonal fountain that Artemisia likes?

5. What does Artemisia say her father often does more than the work of painting?

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