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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eyes: Pages 82-159.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Francesco at the time she was commissioned to paint one season of Borse's "painted year" (90)?
(a) 33.
(b) 27.
(c) 36.
(d) 23.

2. What was NOT a scent Francesco reported detecting during her sexual encounter with the "infidel" (87) stranger?
(a) Clean earth.
(b) Grass.
(c) Bread.
(d) Apples.

3. Which of Francescho's acquaintances did she NOT include as a Grace within Borse's fresco?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Ginevra.
(c) Aguola.
(d) Isotta.

4. Around which object did Francescho paint "a gathering of working women" (110)?
(a) A bathtub.
(b) A fountain.
(c) A loom.
(d) A cauldron.

5. When the woman whom Francescho has drawn asks to have the drawing, what condition does Francescho set?
(a) The woman must pay Francescho.
(b) The woman must give Francescho a chaste kiss.
(c) The woman must tell Barto that she had engaged in sex with Francescho.
(d) The woman must give Francescho a passionate kiss.

Short Answer Questions

1. While three of the quotes in the novel's Epigraph section are in English, another quote is provided in which untranslated language?

2. According to Francescho, who comforted her in her childhood when she cried after seeing a particular object disappear?

3. How many "main kinds" (60) of the color green does Francescho tell Barto exist in the world?

4. As Francescho stands in a museum looking at his own work and that of other artists after having traveled in time, what century is it?

5. What word featured in the fresco did Francescho change before abandoning her position as a court painter under the marquis?

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