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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 painting stool.
(d) Her easel.

2. What does Prudentia tell Artemisia about who saved Susanna's life?
(a) It was actually the Elders to save Susanna's life.
(b) It was Rebecca.
(c) It was Joaquim.
(d) Others say it was Daniel but Susanna used her own voice to save her life.

3. What does Tassi laugh about and tell Artemisia he thinks she thinks about him in Part III?
(a) That he is arrogant.
(b) That he is funny.
(c) That he is mean.
(d) That he is frugal.

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

5. Who is the Assyrian military leader Judith ingratiates herself to?
(a) Holofernes.
(b) Radicula.
(c) Attila.
(d) Molocha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Orazio at first try to dismiss Artemisia's rape by Tassi as?

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

3. What is one task Artemisia begins to do for her father in the studio following her mother's death?

4. What does Judith do with the Assyrian military leader to get him to let his guard down?

5. What does Tuzia ask Artemisia about Tassi in Part III?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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