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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 15 -20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rappaccini say weak women are exposed to?
(a) All lecherers.
(b) All evil.
(c) All love.
(d) All hate.

2. What vanity does the author say is expected in a young man?
(a) To look in the mirror.
(b) To put on perfume.
(c) To pluck his nostril hairs.
(d) To comb his hair.

3. How does the author refer to Rappaccini's garden in this section?
(a) The Eden of Hell.
(b) The Eden of poisonous flowers.
(c) The garden of hanging snakes.
(d) The garden of the unknown.

4. Which of the following sentences does the man exclaim to Giovanni when he stops him?
(a) Have you forgotten me.
(b) How rude can you get.
(c) Are you insane.
(d) Please Giovanni we need to talk.

5. What does Beatrice say is the offspring of her father's science?
(a) The fountain.
(b) HIs memoirs.
(c) Herself.
(d) The purple shrub.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Giovanni buy on the way home?

4. Who does Baglioni think is an awful man?

5. What does Beatrice say her father would tell Giovanni if he was there?

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