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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 Artemisia feel about her prospects right after she rebuffs Tassi's vulgar overtures?
(a) He is only back where she started.
(b) She is more determined to strike out on her own.
(c) She is ruined forever.
(d) She is more determined to make her partnership with her father work.

2. Who does Tarquin grip in one of Artemisia's paintings?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Lucretia.
(d) Judith.

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

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

5. What had Artemisia expected Tassi to propose when he asked her to share his studio, but that he failed to propose?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Creating an artists' commune together.
(c) Asking her father if they could move to Florence.
(d) Financial partnership.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Artemisia remember as having saved Susanna?

2. What does Artemisia tell Tassi he has damaged of her father's?

3. What does Tassi say as he leaves Artemisia's house for the first time after he appears there following his rape of her?

4. What does Artemisia eventually begin to resent Tuzia and her brothers for?

5. What one thing does Artemisia's mother ask her to remember about Judith's story, if nothing else?

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

3. What does Tassi propose to Artemisia in Part III that she is hopeful about?

4. Why does Artemisia need Orazio to bring charges against Tassi?

5. Why does Daniel rule in favor of Susanna and against the Elders?

6. How does Judith ingratiate herself with the captain of the Assyrian army, Holofernes?

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

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

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

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

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