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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 question does Tassi ask Artemisia repeatedly in Part II?
(a) Why does she not talk to her mother more often?
(b) Why is she so blue?
(c) Why does she not get her own studio?
(d) Why does she not use brighter colors?

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

3. What was Artemisia's mother's full name?
(a) Nadia Ramino.
(b) Prudentia Montone.
(c) Ramona Natali.
(d) Maria Belladonna.

4. What shocks Artemisia about Tassi's presence in her studio?
(a) Her father is there with him.
(b) Tuzia has allowed him to come up to the studio unaccompanied to be with Artemisia.
(c) He is shorter than she expected.
(d) Her brothers are there with him.

5. What does Tassi say to Artemisia just before she goes into mass in Part II?
(a) Now she will have something to confess.
(b) She should skip mass and go with him to the cafe.
(c) She should pray hard.
(d) She should paint in her mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Artemisia when her mother died?

2. What does Artemisia hide that she uses to paint alone sometimes?

3. How old is Artemisia in Part I?

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

5. What does Artemisia often do to make it easier for her to move around while she paints?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Orazio use Artemisia routinely for his work that makes Artemisia feel shame and revulsion?

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

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

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