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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Artemisia's father ignore propriety with her?
(a) By teaching her how to paint.
(b) By sending her to school to learn to read.
(c) By teaching her how to do accounting.
(d) By making her cook.

2. What is the first thing Artemisia says to Tassi the day he comes to her studio and rapes her?
(a) My father banished you from this house.
(b) Get out.
(c) I told you not to come back.
(d) I will join you only if you respect me.

3. What does Artemisia tell her father about Tassi that stops Orazio in his tracks in Part IV?
(a) Tassi raped her.
(b) Tassi does not paint his own work.
(c) Tassi has robbed a bank.
(d) Tassi had someone murdered.

4. What does Rebecca tell the crowd assembled to stone her sister Susanna?
(a) She is guilty of what she is accused of.
(b) She will exact revenge on the village from the afterlife.
(c) Her only sin is not loving her sister enough.
(d) She is raving and terrified, but she is righteous.

5. What does Daniel tell Susanna will happen to the Elders?
(a) They will be stoned.
(b) They will be crucified.
(c) They will be fed to the lions.
(d) They will be stabbed.

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

7. What does Daniel's intervention in her case feel like at first for Susanna?
(a) Justice.
(b) Prolonged agony.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Showmanship.

8. What does Tassi do to Artemisia's beloved painting of Susanna?
(a) Sets fire to it.
(b) Steals it.
(c) Sells it.
(d) Tears it to shreds.

9. What does Judith say to the Assyrian military leader that prompts him to tell her it will be a shame to kill her?
(a) She is his sister.
(b) She has been posing as a male solder in his army.
(c) She is a woman of the Hebrews.
(d) She is a widow.

10. What does Artemisia tell Tassi he has damaged of her father's?
(a) His heart.
(b) His easel.
(c) His property.
(d) His reputation.

11. What is Abra's role in the murder of the Assyrian military leader?
(a) Cutting his hair.
(b) Hiding his sword.
(c) Sitting on his chest to immobolize him.
(d) Drugging him.

12. What is the word that Artemisia thinks of right after Tassi makes his vulgar overture to her about sharing his studio in Part III?
(a) Confinement.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Madness.
(d) Possession.

13. What does Judith say is the main reason for Artemisia bringing charges against Tassi?
(a) He will keep assaulting women, potentially, if she does not speak out.
(b) He will continue taking commissions from her if she does not speak.
(c) He will eventually kill someone if she does not speak.
(d) It is sometimes necessary to seek this kind of revenge.

14. What does the slightest shift do to perspective, according to Artemisia?
(a) Transforms the subject.
(b) Ruins the painting.
(c) Informs the shading.
(d) Changes the meaning.

15. When does Artemisia begin to imagine Judith and Susanna talking to her?
(a) Right before she leaves home.
(b) Right after her brothers berate her.
(c) Right after her father beats her.
(d) Right after her rape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Artemisia remember as having saved Susanna?

2. What does Judith do with the Assyrian military leader to get him to let his guard down?

3. What has Artemisia heard her brother Francesco reciting?

4. What happened to Artemisia the day after her mother died?

5. What does Orazio tell Artemisia that Tassi is already doing to discredit her?

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