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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What places Giovanni at ease when he first sees Beatrice?
(a) The clearing clouds.
(b) A sudden rainfall.
(c) Beatrice's manner.
(d) Beatrice's beauty.

2. What does the author compare Beatrice's voice to when she accepts the bouquet?
(a) A gush of music.
(b) A chorus of violins.
(c) A chorus of frogs.
(d) A gush of pure water.

3. What does Lisabetta tell Giovanni she has found?
(a) Photographs of Beatrice.
(b) A treasure chest.
(c) A private entrance to Rappaccini's garden.
(d) A secret entrance into Beatrice's bedroom.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the missing word "Basking in the .......... sunshine of her beauty."

2. Why does Rappaccini call for his daughter?

3. What is Beatrice's face brightened by?

4. What does Beatrice do as she comes down the garden path?

5. What kind of stone is the fountain made from?

(see the answer key)

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