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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. How does Judith's husband die?
(a) His brother kills him.
(b) He is killed in a carriage accident.
(c) He goes off to fight the Assyrians and never returns.
(d) He gets a fever and dies.

2. What does Tuzia tell Artemisia about how she dresses?
(a) She looks best in her white dresses.
(b) No clothes could make Artemisia a beauty like her mother was.
(c) Just because she is doing a man's work does not mean she has to look like a man.
(d) She needs to spend more money on clothes.

3. Where does Artemisia say everything begins from in Part I?
(a) The pigment grinding.
(b) The viewing point.
(c) The park.
(d) The studio.

4. How does Tassi get Tuzia to agree to let him ride in the carriage with her and Artemisia?
(a) He charms and flatters her.
(b) He gets her drunk.
(c) He pays her.
(d) He drugs her.

5. What does Artemisia tell Tassi that makes him angry in Part II?
(a) That Tuzia makes her cook all the time.
(b) That her father steals all her money.
(c) That her brothers abuse her routinely.
(d) That her father makes her pose nude sometimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tassi ask Artemisia to do in Part II that thrills her at first?

2. Who is Susanna's husband?

3. What does Tuzia make Artemisia do when they go to market?

4. Where is the commission from that Orazio covets that he wants Artemisia to help him secure?

5. Why does Orazio grow angry with Artemisia while he quizzes her on her painting techniques and materials?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Artemisia's mother tell her to do when the world tells her not to be so outraged and to be kind, and to be a lady?

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

5. How does Artemisia describe Orazio's talent and teachings?

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

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

8. 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?

9. Why does Artemisia think her mother told her the story of Susanna as she matures?

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

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