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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What first name is eventually revealed to have belonged to Francescho's father?
(a) Cristoforo.
(b) Cosmo.
(c) Antonio.
(d) Barto.

2. In what city was Francescho residing when she was notified that her father had died?
(a) Paris.
(b) Bologna.
(c) Padua.
(d) Rome.

3. Which ingredient did Francescho always use to create richer colors of paint?
(a) Tree bark.
(b) Egg.
(c) Goose fat.
(d) Milk.

4. How many paintings by Cosmo does Francescho count in the museum room where she sees only one of her own paintings being displayed?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

5. Which objects does Francescho recall teaching Cosmo how to paint more realistically?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Apples.
(c) Baubles.
(d) Feet.

6. The Falcon told Francescho that the figure of Minerva required what kind of accompaniment?
(a) Horns.
(b) Unicorns.
(c) Wings.
(d) Bears.

7. Barto called his therapeutic method "the Rite of" (127) whom?
(a) Pandora.
(b) Mnemosyne.
(c) Persephone.
(d) Liturgy.

8. What term does Francescho use in the scene at the museum in order to describe the viewer of her painting before she realizes her mistake?
(a) Boy.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Priest.
(d) Girl.

9. What method did Francescho use in order to flee from Borse's service?
(a) By boat.
(b) By caravan.
(c) On horseback.
(d) On foot.

10. While three of the quotes in the novel's Epigraph section are in English, another quote is provided in which untranslated language?
(a) Italian.
(b) German.
(c) Spanish.
(d) French.

11. Barto and Francescho travel to what city in order to "see the processions" (61)?
(a) Padua.
(b) Vatican City.
(c) Reggio.
(d) Arpeggio.

12. When the name of "the pickpocket" (113) is at last revealed by Francescho, what is it?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Ercole.
(c) Domenico.
(d) Cosmo.

13. Which artist's works are considered to be "showy" (8) by Francescho?
(a) Cosmo.
(b) Michelangelo.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Leonardo.

14. Francescho tells the reader about a time in her early childhood when she had cried about which object's disappearance?
(a) A cloud.
(b) A shooting star.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) A ripple.

15. What word does Francescho consistently shorten in a modern way throughout the her first-person narration of Eyes?
(a) Miniature.
(b) Disagree.
(c) Okay.
(d) Because.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who protected Francescho from being taken as a sex slave by Borse?

2. Which character had often told the story of the Virgin, the angel, and the boy to Francescho?

3. How old was Francesco at the time she was commissioned to paint one season of Borse's "painted year" (90)?

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

5. Which of Francescho's acquaintances did she NOT include as a Grace within Borse's fresco?

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