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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 11-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following words does the author use to describe Rappaccini?
(a) Constipated.
(b) Sallow.
(c) Floppy.
(d) Desperate.

2. What color does Rappaccini dress in?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) Red.

3. What does the author say Rappaccini's voice sounds like it is affected by?
(a) Love sickness.
(b) A difficult life.
(c) Inward disease.
(d) Approaching death.

4. How does Giovanni speak when he first gets out of his inner world into his outer world?
(a) In a nightmare.
(b) With anger.
(c) In a dream.
(d) Like a punch drunk boxer.

5. What does Giovanni wake with a sense of the next day?
(a) Hate.
(b) .Wonder.
(c) Love.
(d) Pain

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say Beatrice's pure delight at Giovanni's company is not unlike?

2. What is Giovanni beneath as he stands just inside Rappaccini's garden?

3. What does Giovanni's landlady exclaim when she sees Giovanni?

4. How does Giovanni address Beatrice when he first speaks to her?

5. What does the writer say Beatrice's voice is as rich as?

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