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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Artemisia say her father often does more than the work of painting?
2. What tool does Artemisia miss when she can not find it in Part II?
3. What question does Tassi ask Artemisia repeatedly in Part II?
4. Who is the servant in Artemisia's family?
5. How do all the masters paint the Elders in Susanna's story?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Artemisia describe Orazio's talent and teachings?
2. Why does Tuzia agree to let Tassi ride in the carriage to mass with herself and Artemisia?
3. What does Artemisia do when she needs a female model for her paintings?
4. What does Artemisia's mother tell her to do when the world tells her not to be so outraged and to be kind, and to be a lady?
5. What does Artemisia wonder about when her family's servant Tuzia implores her to carry the baskets through the market because her arms are younger and stronger?
6. How does Artemisia feel about cooking, and what does cooking represent for her?
7. What happens to Susanna in her garden that puts her in great peril?
8. How does Artemisia make use of the time she is made to perform menial tasks away from her easel?
9. Why does Artemisia think her mother told her the story of Susanna as she matures?
10. How does Artemisia remember her mother who has passed away?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does McCullough communicate the depth and nature of Artemisia's grief over her mother's death to the reader throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How does Artemisia handle, and eventually seem to triumph over, the horrific injuries to her hands from her ordeal at the trial of her rapist? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think Artemisia's mother chose the stories particularly of Susanna and Judith to tell to Artemisia when she was a young girl? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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