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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of ending did the story about the Virgin, the angel, and the boy have, though Francesco had not known this fact until much later?
(a) Scary.
(b) Happy.
(c) Tragic.
(d) Mysterious.

4. Which character insulted Francesco's work before the painting of Marsyas disappeared, along with her bundle of sketches?
(a) Borse.
(b) Barto.
(c) The Falcon.
(d) Cosmo.

5. Francescho recalls that her mother had always told her to be willing to take what action in relation to her skin?
(a) Hide it.
(b) Bare it.
(c) Risk it.
(d) Save it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which ingredient did Francescho always use to create richer colors of paint?

2. Francescho tells the reader about a time in her early childhood when she had cried about which object's disappearance?

3. Francescho says that Ferara is "the best place for brickmaking" (21) due to the clay that can be gathered nearby which body of water?

4. How many paintings by Cosmo does Francescho count in the museum room where she sees only one of her own paintings being displayed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Francescho's father done for a living and how had Francescho worked under his tutelage?

2. What insights does Francescho provide into the subversive elements of her artwork?

3. Characterize Francescho's relationship with the Falcon.

4. What is Francescho's attitude toward the painter called Cosmo?

5. What evidence does Francescho provide for her claim that there were other women in Renaissance-era Italy who posed as men in order to pursue careers in art?

6. What story does Francescho recount about "the infidel worker" (83) whose likeness she had eventually painted into Borse's fresco?

7. What assumption does Francescho make about the person she observes looking at a painting in the museum and what event makes her sure that she had been mistaken?

8. What quality does Francescho "sense" is "central to" the "nature" (84) of the young woman whom she observes throughout the narrative?

9. What two elements of life had Francescho's mother named as those that are invaluable in getting "to live the life we're meant for" (112)?

10. Which element of the fresco in Borse's palace had the Falcon insisted must be changed in order to avoid the wrath of Borse and others?

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