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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 plant does Rappaccini put in Beatrice's charge?
(a) The green plant.
(b) The orange plant,
(c) The red plant.
(d) The purple plant.

2. Who stops Giovanni in the streets?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Rappaccini.
(c) Baglioni.
(d) Baggio.

3. What does Liabetta say a young man in Padua would give to be among Rappaccini's flowers?
(a) His life.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silver.
(d) His virginity.

4. What does the author say Lisabetta's smile looks like?
(a) A carving in wood.
(b) A crack in a stone.
(c) A bullet wound.
(d) A paper cut.

5. How does the author say Beatrice gazed at the insect?
(a) With childish delight.
(b) With adult commonsense.
(c) With humorless eyes.
(d) With brutal honesty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Giovanni say Beatrice should wear the flowers for the sake of?

2. Which Italian poet does the author reference in the opening of the story?

3. What is Giovanni's surname?

4. How does Baglioni know Giovanni?

5. What does the author says proceeds from the plants as night closes in?

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