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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 taught her perspective in a way she did not understand before.
(c) Tassi has given her the confidence she needed to paint her own work.
(d) Tassi has told her he will pay her for this painting.

2. Why does Susanna not call out for her husband when she feels under threat from the Elders in her garden?
(a) Her husband is having an affair with the maid in the house.
(b) Her husband is dead.
(c) Her husband is away.
(d) Her husband is deaf.

3. What does Artemisia say her father often does more than the work of painting?
(a) Eat luxuriously.
(b) Chase women.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Sign his name and take his gold.

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

5. Who does Artemisia model one of the terrible Elders in her painting of Susanna after?
(a) Giovanni.
(b) Tuzia.
(c) Her father.
(d) Tassi.

6. Where does Artemisia say everything begins from in Part I?
(a) The studio.
(b) The viewing point.
(c) The pigment grinding.
(d) The park.

7. How does Judith's husband die?
(a) His brother kills him.
(b) He is killed in a carriage accident.
(c) He gets a fever and dies.
(d) He goes off to fight the Assyrians and never returns.

8. What secret does Artemisia tell Tassi in Part II?
(a) People have started asking her to do her own commissions.
(b) She plans on running away from home soon.
(c) She signs her own name on all of Orazio's paintings, but in a place where no one notices it.
(d) She does all the painting that her father signs his name to.

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

10. What does Artemisia hide that she uses to paint alone sometimes?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A special brush.
(c) A palette knife.
(d) A special pigment grinder.

11. What does one Elder tell her he will do if Susanna does not take off her robe?
(a) Kill her.
(b) Take it off for her.
(c) Tell the world that she cavorted in her garden with a man who was not her husband, which would mean death for Susanna.
(d) Beat her.

12. Why does Artemisia think her father asked Tassi to teach her?
(a) Because he wants to endear himself to Tassi to get a piece of a new commission.
(b) Because he thinks Artemisia needs help with her pigment grinding.
(c) Because he wants Artemisia to see what a really great painter can offer her.
(d) Because he thinks Tassi would be a good suitor to her.

13. How does Tassi get Tuzia to agree to let him ride in the carriage with her and Artemisia?
(a) He pays her.
(b) He charms and flatters her.
(c) He drugs her.
(d) He gets her drunk.

14. What does Artemisia's mother tell her the world will tell her NOT to be?
(a) Placid.
(b) Kind.
(c) Outraged.
(d) Beautiful.

15. Who is Artemisia's father?
(a) Tino Tassi.
(b) Marco Rania.
(c) Orazio Gentileschi.
(d) Silvio Berlucci.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of oil does Artemisia routinely use in her painting?

2. Where is Judith from?

3. Who is the taller Elder who comes to Susanna in her garden?

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

5. What is the only thing about preparing dinner that Artemisia likes?

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