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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Orazio say about how Tassi can help their family?
(a) He can write good reviews of their work for the papers.
(b) He can help them move to France, where there is more work.
(c) He can make the family's fortune by throwing commissions their way.
(d) He can speak to the Pope about giving them more work.

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

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

4. What does Orazio tell Artemisia that Tassi is already doing to discredit her?
(a) Preparing to leave the country.
(b) Paying people to speak against her.
(c) Drawing rude pictures of her.
(d) Sowing his seeds, meaning spreading rumors about her.

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

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

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

8. What does Tassi say about Artemisia's own Susanna painting the first time he comes to her studio after she rebuffs his advances?
(a) Susanna looks mad.
(b) Susanna looks brave.
(c) Susanna is a tease.
(d) Susanna is about to die.

9. Who is the Assyrian military leader Judith ingratiates herself to?
(a) Molocha.
(b) Holofernes.
(c) Radicula.
(d) Attila.

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

11. What does Tassi tell Artemisia she was long before he touched her?
(a) A good girl.
(b) A child.
(c) Damaged goods.
(d) A woman.

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

13. What does Tassi tell Artemisia about his opinion of her father's friendship?
(a) He is incredibly loyal.
(b) He is known for being a double-crosser.
(c) He is a worthless friend.
(d) He will do anything for money.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the slightest shift do to perspective, according to Artemisia?

2. What does Orazio tell Artemisia will happen if she pursues charges against Tassi?

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

4. What does Tassi tell Artemisia he would do with her if she shared his studio?

5. How do Artemisia's brothers' attitudes towards her change after hearing her story of her rape to the men who come to the house?

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