View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beatrice tell the plant she is faint with?
(a) Common conversation.
(b) Common air.
(c) Lack of love.
(d) Lack of life.

2. What does Giovanni hear when Lisabetta opens the garden gate?
(a) The rustling of leaves.
(b) The singing of birds.
(c) The swaying of trees.
(d) The howling of a wind.

3. What does Giovanni bring to Baglioni?
(a) An essay on plants.
(b) A university scroll.
(c) A tape of introduction.
(d) A letter of introduction.

4. What does Giovanni see outside window that impresses him so much?
(a) A shooting star.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A bird.
(d) A garden.

5. What is wrong with the fountain?
(a) It's figurehead has no head.
(b) It is cracked down the middle.
(c) It sprays water in three different directions.
(d) It is covered in moss.

6. How does Giovanni expect the professor to respond to Rappaccini's name?
(a) Lovingly.
(b) Amusingly.
(c) Cordially.
(d) Angrily.

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

8. What word does the author use to describe Giovanni's southern temperament?
(a) Foolish.
(b) Ardent.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Cool.

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

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

11. What does Giovanni have a supply of in his pocket?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Gold ducats.
(c) Boiled sweets.
(d) Cigarettes.

12. Which of the following sentences does Giovanni rudely state to Baglioni?
(a) You wouldn't understand me.
(b) Now let me pass.
(c) Go away.
(d) You smell.

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

14. What famous garden does Giovanni compare Rappaccini's garden to?
(a) The Garden of Eden.
(b) The Swedish Gardens.
(c) Kew Gardens.
(d) The Hanging Garden of Babylon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Giovanni give Lisabetta in this section?

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

3. What is Baglioni's first name?

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

5. What does the author say the wine has caused Giovanni's brain to do?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 435 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample