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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 Judith's voice remind Artemisia the second time Tassi comes to her studio after her rape?
(a) She is talented.
(b) She is not small.
(c) She is independent.
(d) She is weak.

2. How did Artemisia ruin a canvass when she was five or six years old?
(a) By getting dirt from her hands on it.
(b) By tearing it.
(c) By accidentally placing it too close to the fire.
(d) By painting on it without properly preparing it first.

3. What does Artemisia focus on in her painting of Judith?
(a) The tenderness between her and Abra.
(b) Holofernes's brutality.
(c) The blood.
(d) The bread in the basket.

4. What is Abra's role in the murder of the Assyrian military leader?
(a) Cutting his hair.
(b) Sitting on his chest to immobolize him.
(c) Drugging him.
(d) Hiding his sword.

5. What has Artemisia heard her brother Francesco reciting?
(a) Roham.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first thing Orazio asked Artemisia to do for him in the studio after her mother died?

2. What is the one time Tuzia does not do Artemisia's washing?

3. What did Artemisia's father once tell her about Susanna in paintings?

4. What does Artemisia tell her father about Tassi that stops Orazio in his tracks in Part IV?

5. What is the first thing Artemisia says to Tassi the second time he comes to her studio after her rape?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Artemisia realize with horror about her body some weeks after Tassi's assault?

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

5. What does Artemisia say to Orazio that seems to make him agree to bring charges against Tassi?

6. Who does Artemisia envision helping her after her rape in Part IV?

7. What is Abra's role in Judith's plan with Holofernes?

8. How and when did Artemisia become her father's apprentice?

9. How does Tassi act when he sees Artemisia for the first time after his assault on her?

10. What does Tassi say to Artemisia immediately after she rebuffs his sexual overtures in Part III?

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