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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 does Susanna do when she senses the Elders watching her in the bath?
(a) Immediately gets out of the bath to go and stab the Elders watching her.
(b) Cries for her servants.
(c) Holds her breath and dips below the surface of the water.
(d) Cries for her husband.

2. Artemisia says she can cover the flaws in Orazio's talent but can do nothing for the flaws in what other area?
(a) His heart.
(b) His perception.
(c) His wallet.
(d) His soul.

3. Why does Artemisia think her father asked Tassi to teach her?
(a) Because he thinks Tassi would be a good suitor to her.
(b) Because he thinks Artemisia needs help with her pigment grinding.
(c) Because he wants to endear himself to Tassi to get a piece of a new commission.
(d) Because he wants Artemisia to see what a really great painter can offer her.

4. Who is the teacher Orazio has hired to help Artemisia with her painting?
(a) Agostino Tassi.
(b) Giovanna Silvestri.
(c) Silvio Banucci.
(d) Marto Valli.

5. What makes Orazio angry when Artemisia tells him Tassi is looking into the Quirinal commission?
(a) She uses the word "us."
(b) She tells him the payment, which is uncouth.
(c) She tells him she will not work for him any longer when she tells him this information.
(d) She giggles when she tells him this information.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for the Virgin Mary?

2. What does Artemisia realize women's beauty seems to be for in men's eyes?

3. What is Artemisia inspired to do concerning her own body after she and Tassi kiss?

4. Who is Susanna's elder sister?

5. What advice does Tassi give Artemisia that she is pleased to hear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Artemisia tell Tassi to try to entice him to assign a lucrative new commission to her father?

2. What does Artemisia know incites her father when he starts ranting about the supposedly poor quality of her own painting in Part I?

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

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

5. How does Artemisia feel about cooking, and what does cooking represent for her?

6. 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?

7. Why does Artemisia's father not object to the unusual situation of having a female apprentice?

8. How does Artemisia's mother begin her story to Artemisia about Susanna?

9. How does Artemisia shut out the rest of the world and its distractions and problems?

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

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