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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 Orazio tell Artemisia will happen if she pursues charges against Tassi?
(a) She will be the one who will suffer.
(b) She will be put to death.
(c) She will have to become a nun.
(d) She will dishonor her mother's memory.

2. Why do Judith and Abra laugh as they wait outside the gates of their city?
(a) Judith tells a funny joke.
(b) Abra tells a funny joke.
(c) They think Holofernes's head is funny.
(d) They can not believe the absurdity of their own situation.

3. Why does Judith pause outside of her city's gates?
(a) She is thinking of running away.
(b) She needs to think what she will say if people do not believe she and Abra killed Holofernes.
(c) She is worried what her mother will say.
(d) She can not face her husband's ire.

4. Why does Judith decide she has to take the head of the Assyrian military leader back to the village?
(a) As a trophy.
(b) For proof that she actually killed him.
(c) So she can show it to her father so he will not kill her for leaving the city walls without permission.
(d) So they can bury it in a funeral rite.

5. What does Artemisia think of Susanna as she gathers the remains of her painting of Susanna from the floor?
(a) She was lucky a man saved her from death.
(b) She was a fool.
(c) She was pure and virtuous.
(d) She was fortunate to have a sister like Rebecca.

Short Answer Questions

1. What liquids does Artemisia mix for her paintings in Part III?

2. What does Artemisia focus on in her painting of Judith?

3. Why is Artemisia sick with anxiety when she realizes it has been many weeks since she has bled in Part III?

4. How do Artemisia's brothers' attitudes towards her change after hearing her story of her rape to the men who come to the house?

5. What does Tassi say to Artemisia about her work as soon as she rebuffs his overture?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Tassi say that immediately turns Artemisia off from him in Part III?

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

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