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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rappaccini think all medicinal virtues are comprised with?
(a) Vegetable poisons.
(b) Fruit poisons.
(c) Pollen poisons.
(d) Botanic poisons.

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

3. What is all beneath Giovanni's eye when he first looks out of his window?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Life.
(d) Solitude.

4. What does Giovanni dream of at night in this section?
(a) Being attacked by a plant.
(b) Flying through the garden.
(c) A rich flower and a beautiful woman.
(d) Going home to Naples.

5. What is the only thing that Baglioni says he knows about Beatrice?
(a) She has giving birth to two children.
(b) She has deep knowledge of science.
(c) She is a good gardener.
(d) She speaks five languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the strange plants doing to each other as they bask in the sun?

2. Who meets Giovanni at the door of his lodgings?

3. Why does Rappaccini call for his daughter?

4. What word does the author use to describe Giovanni's southern temperament?

5. What does Lisabetta call Giovanni when she talks to him?

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