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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. Why does Artemisia feel she can paint her own Susanna after having a few lessons with Tassi?
(a) Tassi has told her he will pay her for this painting.
(b) Tassi has shown her how to grind the pigments correctly.
(c) Tassi has given her the confidence she needed to paint her own work.
(d) Tassi has taught her perspective in a way she did not understand before.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Susanna not call out for her husband when she feels under threat from the Elders in her garden?

2. Where is Judith from?

3. Who is Susanna's husband?

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

5. What does Susanna do when she senses the Elders watching her in the bath?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happens to Susanna in her garden that puts her in great peril?

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

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

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

8. In Part I, who does Orazio, Artemisia's father, not recognize in one of her paintings?

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

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

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