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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Marriage.
(b) Confinement.
(c) Madness.
(d) Possession.

2. What does Artemisia spend more time painting in her work than faces?
(a) Birds.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Hands.
(d) Backgrounds.

3. What has Artemisia heard her brother Francesco reciting?
(a) Roham.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Homer.
(d) Ovid.

4. What does Artemisia seem to lose her ability to do following the rape?
(a) Cook.
(b) Speak.
(c) Paint.
(d) Sing.

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

6. What happened to Artemisia the day after her mother died?
(a) She threw up.
(b) She broke her leg.
(c) She got her period for the first time.
(d) She contracted the Plague.

7. What color does Tassi routinely use to describe Artemisia?
(a) Ochre.
(b) Cerulean.
(c) Magenta.
(d) Vermillion.

8. Who does Artemisia remember as having saved Susanna?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Joaquim.
(c) Holofernes.
(d) Malachi.

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 has been posing as a male solder in his army.
(b) She is a widow.
(c) She is his sister.
(d) She is a woman of the Hebrews.

10. What is the one time Tuzia does not do Artemisia's washing?
(a) On Christmas and Easter.
(b) When she has sex wtih suitors.
(c) When she is sick with flu.
(d) When she bleeds.

11. Why does Artemisia think the men who come to interview her about the rape ask her to repeat her story?
(a) To make sure Orazio hears it repeatedly.
(b) To make sure they get the details right.
(c) To wear her down so she will say it never happened.
(d) To make sure the whole household hears it.

12. What is the one additional sin Artemisia's mother lists for Susanna that Susanna herself does not mention?
(a) She has desires.
(b) She is brave.
(c) She longs for better.
(d) She is a woman.

13. Why does Judith decide she has to take the head of the Assyrian military leader back to the village?
(a) As a trophy.
(b) So she can show it to her father so he will not kill her for leaving the city walls without permission.
(c) So they can bury it in a funeral rite.
(d) For proof that she actually killed him.

14. What does Tassi tell Artemisia will happen to her without him?
(a) She will be cast out by her father.
(b) She will be frozen out of commissions.
(c) She will never fulfill her potential.
(d) She will die poor.

15. What does Giulio tell the men who come to interview Artemisia about his sister?
(a) She never laughs.
(b) She does not speak often.
(c) She just likes attention.
(d) She always lies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artemisia eventually begin to resent Tuzia and her brothers for?

2. Why does Daniel believe Susanna over the Elders?

3. What is the word on the street about Orazio's Susanna painting?

4. How did Artemisia's father ignore propriety with her?

5. What does Tassi do to Artemisia's beloved painting of Susanna?

(see the answer keys)

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