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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Tuzia ask Artemisia about Tassi in Part III?
(a) Why he has not come to visit lately.
(b) Why Artemisia has not yet proposed marriage to him.
(c) Why Artemisia has not baked a cake for him yet.
(d) Why Artemisia has not gone to the market with him.

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

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

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

8. What does Tassi tell Artemisia he would do with her if she shared his studio?
(a) Marry her.
(b) Make better use of her as a live model than her father did.
(c) Send her to school.
(d) Have her work as his maid.

9. 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.

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

11. 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) Possession.
(c) Madness.
(d) Marriage.

12. How does Artemisia think to herself that she might survive Tassi's assault on her?
(a) By thinking of her mother's song in her head.
(b) By remembering Judith.
(c) By remembering her best friend's suffering.
(d) By keeping her focus on one constant bit of suffering.

13. What does Artemisia think of Susanna as she gathers the remains of her painting of Susanna from the floor?
(a) She was lucky a man saved her from death.
(b) She was a fool.
(c) She was fortunate to have a sister like Rebecca.
(d) She was pure and virtuous.

14. What does Tassi say to Artemisia about her work as soon as she rebuffs his overture?
(a) Her colors are drab.
(b) Her perspective is terribe.
(c) Her shading is extremely poor.
(d) Her faces are laughable.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Artemisia hide when she flees Tassi in her studio?

3. What does Orazio say about how Tassi can help their family?

4. What does Tassi tell Artemisia she was long before he touched her?

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

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