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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. How does Artemisia feel when she gets her period for the first time following her rape?

3. What does Rebecca tell the crowd assembled to stone her sister Susanna?

4. How does Artemisia think to herself that she might survive Tassi's assault on her?

5. What does Giulio tell the men who come to interview Artemisia about his sister?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Tino Tassi seem to gain and maintain his position of influence and power in society? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How would you describe Artemisia's relationship with Tuzia, the family's servant? Why do you think Artemisia and Tuzia have such a cold relationship? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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