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

2. What does Artemisia tell Tassi he has damaged of her father's?
(a) His heart.
(b) His easel.
(c) His property.
(d) His reputation.

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

4. What does Tassi say to Artemisia about her work as soon as she rebuffs his overture?
(a) Her colors are drab.
(b) Her perspective is terribe.
(c) Her faces are laughable.
(d) Her shading is extremely poor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tarquin grip in one of Artemisia's paintings?

2. Who does Artemisia remember as having saved Susanna?

3. What does Tassi tell Artemisia will happen to her without him?

4. What does Prudentia tell Artemisia about who saved Susanna's life?

5. What does Judith carry the Assyrian military leader's head in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Susanna say for herself at her stoning?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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