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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. Where does Artemisia hide when she flees Tassi in her studio?
(a) The closet.
(b) The pantry.
(c) The outhouse.
(d) Her brother's room.

2. What does Tuzia ask Artemisia about Tassi in Part III?
(a) Why Artemisia has not yet proposed marriage to him.
(b) Why Artemisia has not baked a cake for him yet.
(c) Why Artemisia has not gone to the market with him.
(d) Why he has not come to visit lately.

3. Who is Artemisia's smallest brother?
(a) Francesco.
(b) Roberto.
(c) Giulio.
(d) Freddo.

4. How does Artemisia think to herself that she might survive Tassi's assault on her?
(a) By keeping her focus on one constant bit of suffering.
(b) By remembering her best friend's suffering.
(c) By thinking of her mother's song in her head.
(d) By remembering Judith.

5. What does the slightest shift do to perspective, according to Artemisia?
(a) Informs the shading.
(b) Changes the meaning.
(c) Ruins the painting.
(d) Transforms the subject.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Abra's role in the murder of the Assyrian military leader?

2. What does Orazio at first try to dismiss Artemisia's rape by Tassi as?

3. Why does Daniel believe Susanna over the Elders?

4. What is the word on the street about Orazio's Susanna painting?

5. What does Orazio say about how Tassi can help their family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Judith and Abra do for a time as they pause in front of the village gates with Holofernes's head in the basket?

2. What shocks Artemisia in the immediate aftermath of Tassi's crime against her?

3. What does Artemisia focus on in her own painting of Judith that she has not seen other renditions of this painting bring to the fore?

4. What does Artemisia spend so much more time on when she paints than faces?

5. What does Tassi do to Artemisia in Part III that haunts Artemisia forever afterwards?

6. What does Tassi do in a rage the first time he comes back to see Artemisia after she rebuffs his sexual advances?

7. What does Judith take with her back to her village's gates to prove that she did what she did to Holofernes?

8. What does Tassi tell Artemisia when she tells him she is going to ask her father to bring charges against him?

9. What does Artemisia do to escape from Tassi when he comes to see her in her studio the first time following the assault?

10. How does Rebecca act when Susanna is just about to be stoned?

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