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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 Artemisia want to burn because Tassi has touched it?
(a) Her brush.
(b) Her palette.
(c) Her easel.
(d) Her painting stool.

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

3. What one thing does Artemisia's mother ask her to remember about Judith's story, if nothing else?
(a) She treats Abra well.
(b) She survives.
(c) She avenges her husband's death.
(d) She becomes a military leader herself.

4. What does Artemisia eventually begin to resent Tuzia and her brothers for?
(a) She thinks they are making fun of her for her illiteracy.
(b) She thinks they are all spreading rumors about her.
(c) She thinks they are happy to see her suffering.
(d) She thinks they may have heard her being raped and not have come to help her.

5. What does Tassi tell Artemisia she was long before he touched her?
(a) A woman.
(b) A child.
(c) Damaged goods.
(d) A good girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orazio tell Artemisia that Tassi is already doing to discredit her?

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

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

4. What does Artemisia seem to lose her ability to do following the rape?

5. What does Tassi do to Artemisia's beloved painting of Susanna?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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