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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. Why does Daniel believe Susanna over the Elders?
(a) Susanna paid Daniel more than the Elders did.
(b) Susanna spoke better than they did.
(c) The Elders' stories did not match up.
(d) Susanna has witnesses to back up her story.

2. When does Artemisia begin to imagine Judith and Susanna talking to her?
(a) Right after her rape.
(b) Right after her brothers berate her.
(c) Right before she leaves home.
(d) Right after her father beats her.

3. What does Judith do with the Assyrian military leader to get him to let his guard down?
(a) Poses as his sister.
(b) Poses as his lawyer.
(c) Seduces him and has sex with him.
(d) Cooks for him.

4. What did Artemisia's father once tell her about Susanna in paintings?
(a) She is never alone.
(b) She is always brave.
(c) She is always beautiful.
(d) She is never terrified.

5. What does Judith say to the Assyrian military leader that prompts him to tell her it will be a shame to kill her?
(a) She is a woman of the Hebrews.
(b) She has been posing as a male solder in his army.
(c) She is a widow.
(d) She is his sister.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Daniel tell Susanna is his impression of her?

3. What is the word that Artemisia thinks of right after Tassi makes his vulgar overture to her about sharing his studio in Part III?

4. What does Tassi call Artemisia the first time he comes to see her after he rapes her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. How and when did Artemisia become her father's apprentice?

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

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

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?

(see the answer keys)

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