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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 Giovanni buy on the way home?
(a) A pair of shoes.
(b) A ring.
(c) A postcard.
(d) A bouquet of flowers.

2. What does the author say Giovanni's pulses had throbbed with?
(a) Thin blood.
(b) Luminous blood.
(c) Clotted blood.
(d) Feverish blood.

3. What does Giovanni think Rappaccini looks like he is working among when he walks among his plants and flowers?
(a) Evil spirits.
(b) Beautiful women.
(c) Sleeping babies.
(d) Heavenly angels.

4. What word does the author use to describe Giovanni's impatience when he talks to the professor?
(a) Feverish.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Manic.
(d) Angry.

5. What does Giovanni think has an immortal spirit?
(a) His apartment.
(b) The purple flower.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) The fountain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author say Rappaccini defends his hands with?

3. What does Giovanni bring to Baglioni?

4. What does the author compare Beatrice's voice to when she accepts the bouquet?

5. Why does Beatrice say Rappaccini cannot touch the plant?

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