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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orazio finally tell Artemisia about what she should do if she insists on charging Tassi?
(a) To try to enlist Tuzia's help.
(b) To find all the witnesses she can.
(c) To spend all her money on this endeavor.
(d) To paint a masterpiece with her story.

2. What does Tassi call Artemisia the first time he comes to see her after he rapes her?
(a) Sweetie.
(b) Honey.
(c) Whore.
(d) Darling.

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

4. What was the first thing Orazio asked Artemisia to do for him in the studio after her mother died?
(a) Stretch the canvass.
(b) Fetch a palette knife.
(c) Write a letter.
(d) Boil the glue.

5. Who is Artemisia's smallest brother?
(a) Freddo.
(b) Roberto.
(c) Giulio.
(d) Francesco.

6. Why does Orazio send Tuzia away?
(a) He tells Artemisia she is spying for Tassi.
(b) He tells Artemisia she was spreading rumors about her.
(c) He tells Artemisia she was paid to look the other way.
(d) He tells Artemisia she was too expensive.

7. What is one task Artemisia begins to do for her father in the studio following her mother's death?
(a) Paint backgrounds.
(b) Grind pigments.
(c) Boil glue.
(d) Stretch the canvass.

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

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

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

11. How does Artemisia feel when she gets her period for the first time following her rape?
(a) Angry.
(b) Deeply relieved.
(c) Traumatized.
(d) Extremely sad.

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

13. What does Orazio at first try to dismiss Artemisia's rape by Tassi as?
(a) A misunderstanding.
(b) A beating.
(c) A lover's quarrel.
(d) A scuffle.

14. What does Artemisia eventually begin to resent Tuzia and her brothers for?
(a) She thinks they are all spreading rumors about her.
(b) She thinks they are happy to see her suffering.
(c) She thinks they may have heard her being raped and not have come to help her.
(d) She thinks they are making fun of her for her illiteracy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What liquids does Artemisia mix for her paintings in Part III?

2. Why does Artemisia think the men who come to interview her about the rape ask her to repeat her story?

3. How did Artemisia ruin a canvass when she was five or six years old?

4. What does Artemisia think of Susanna as she gathers the remains of her painting of Susanna from the floor?

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

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