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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Artemisia's mother tell her Judith is rather than a nubile nude?
(a) A warrior.
(b) A wife.
(c) A mother.
(d) A baker.

2. Who is the teacher Orazio has hired to help Artemisia with her painting?
(a) Giovanna Silvestri.
(b) Marto Valli.
(c) Silvio Banucci.
(d) Agostino Tassi.

3. What does Judith give to Abra as they prepare for their journey?
(a) Her ring.
(b) Her own cloak.
(c) Her best shoes.
(d) Her best handkerchief.

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

5. What does Artemisia tell Tassi that makes him angry in Part II?
(a) That her brothers abuse her routinely.
(b) That her father makes her pose nude sometimes.
(c) That her father steals all her money.
(d) That Tuzia makes her cook all the time.

6. In which piazza is there an octagonal fountain that Artemisia likes?
(a) Piazza dei Fiori.
(b) Piazza Navona.
(c) Piazza Octavia.
(d) Piazza di Santa Maria.

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

8. Where is Judith from?
(a) Florence.
(b) Bethulia.
(c) Assyria.
(d) Jerusalem.

9. What tool does Artemisia miss when she can not find it in Part II?
(a) Her pigment grinder.
(b) Her favorite palette knife.
(c) Her best brush.
(d) Her salting set.

10. Who is Judith's servant?
(a) Martha.
(b) Helen.
(c) Abra.
(d) Hala.

11. Where does Susanna bathe in the story Artemisia's mother tells her?
(a) Her garden.
(b) Her bathroom in her house.
(c) The public baths in Florence.
(d) The bathroom of a hotel.

12. How did Orazio react to Artemisia's mother's stories?
(a) He claimed her stories as his own.
(b) He used to love her stories, but he forbade stories to be told in the house after her death.
(c) He loved her stories.
(d) He never listened.

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

14. What does Tuzia tell Artemisia about how she dresses?
(a) She looks best in her white dresses.
(b) She needs to spend more money on clothes.
(c) No clothes could make Artemisia a beauty like her mother was.
(d) Just because she is doing a man's work does not mean she has to look like a man.

15. What was Artemisia's mother's full name?
(a) Ramona Natali.
(b) Nadia Ramino.
(c) Prudentia Montone.
(d) Maria Belladonna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Susanna not call out for her husband when she feels under threat from the Elders in her garden?

2. What is the new commission that Orazio asks Artemisia to model for him in Part II?

3. What does Susanna do when she senses the Elders watching her in the bath?

4. Where does Artemisia say everything begins from in Part I?

5. What is another name for the Virgin Mary?

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