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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 Daniel tell Susanna will happen to the Elders?

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

3. What is Abra's role in the murder of the Assyrian military leader?

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

5. What does Tassi tell Artemisia will happen to her without him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Tassi say to Artemisia immediately after she rebuffs his sexual overtures in Part III?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay discussing the paradox in the fact that Artemisia's salvation and ticket to being able to continue working as an artist at the end of the book comes to her through a marriage proposal.

Essay Topic 2

How does McCullough's choice to write this novel both from (primarily) the first-person point of view and in verse affect the reader's experience of the story? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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