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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vegetable does Artemisia most often have to chop for dinner?
(a) Onions.
(b) Carrots.
(c) Kale.
(d) Peppers.

2. How does Artemisia make the best of being forced to do menial tasks away from her painting studio?
(a) She meets friends during the tasks who boost her spirits.
(b) She daydreams ideas for paintings during the tasks.
(c) She makes money from the menial tasks so she can run away on her own.
(d) She observes the world to use what she sees in her paintings.

3. What advice does Tassi give Artemisia that she is pleased to hear?
(a) To go to the council of elders and report her father's abuse.
(b) To trust her heart in her painting.
(c) To strike out on her own and get her own studio.
(d) To try to appeal to Tuzia to take her out of the house more.

4. What does Artemisia think could be "the answer" to the Holy Child's curls in her portrait in Part I?
(a) Glitter.
(b) Gold.
(c) A different type of lighting in the studio.
(d) More linseed oil.

5. What does Artemisia hide that she uses to paint alone sometimes?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A special pigment grinder.
(c) A palette knife.
(d) A special brush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret does Artemisia tell Tassi in Part II?

2. Where does Artemisia say everything begins from in Part I?

3. What does Tassi ask Artemisia to call him?

4. What does Artemisia tell Tassi she thinks about her father's painting?

5. How does Artemisia paint breasts differently from how men paint them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Artemisia tell Tassi about her father that she has never told anyone before?

2. How does Artemisia feel when she cannot find her favorite palette knife in Part II?

3. When does Tuzia sometimes suggest taking a carriage to mass?

4. How does Orazio respond to Artemisia's question about how to fix the Virgin Mary's arm in the painting she does in Part I?

5. Why does Orazio grow irritated with Artemisia when he quizzes her about materials and methods for painting in Part I?

6. What does Tassi tell Artemisia he really thinks of her father's work?

7. Who does Artemisia use as a model for one of the Elders in her own painting of Susanna?

8. How does Artemisia's mother describe the relationship between Susanna and her sister Rebecca?

9. How does Artemisia make use of the time she is made to perform menial tasks away from her easel?

10. How does Orazio react when Artemisia lets it slip that she told Tassi she helps with the paintings?

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