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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Giovanni ask Beatrice to help him?
(a) By instructing him on the plants.
(b) By showing him the way out of the garden.
(c) By giving him her hand.
(d) By showing him her father's files.

2. What does the author say Beatrice grief was beyond?
(a) Passion.
(b) Love.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hate.

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

4. What does Giovanni call the story Baglioni tells him about Alexander the Great?
(a) A childish fable.
(b) A blatant lie.
(c) A kid's spook story.
(d) A terrible tale.

5. What does Baglioni say Rappaccini has an insane zeal for?
(a) Love.
(b) His daughter.
(c) HIs garden.
(d) Science.

6. Where does Giovanni say is the only place there is a fragrance?
(a) In Rappaccini's garden.
(b) On Lisabetta's clothes.
(c) On the professor's clothes.
(d) In the professor's imagination.

7. What is Beatrice's face brightened by?
(a) Humor.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Love.
(d) Lightness.

8. Fill in the missing word "Basking in the .......... sunshine of her beauty."
(a) Warm.
(b) Oriental.
(c) Indian.
(d) Scorching.

9. What does Giovanni do when he sees neither Beatrice or her father are present in the garden?
(a) He begins to dance naked.
(b) He begins a critical observation of the plants.
(c) He begins to sunbathe.
(d) He begins to take cuttings of the plants.

10. What makes Beatrice pause and tremble in this section?
(a) Her father calling her name.
(b) Giovanni approaching the plant.
(c) The plant drooping towards the ground.
(d) Giovanni frowning darkly upon her.

11. What does Giovanni exclaim after his breath kills the creature?
(a) Dammit.
(b) Take me home.
(c) Accursed.
(d) Troubled days.

12. What does Beatrice say she has done for the first time in her life?
(a) Forgotten the plant.
(b) Spoken to a man.
(c) Walked out of the garden.
(d) Fallen in love.

13. How does Giovanni address Beatrice when he first speaks to her?
(a) Lady.
(b) Signora.
(c) Beat box.
(d) Madame.

14. What does Beatrice say her father would tell Giovanni if he was there?
(a) To go away.
(b) Many strange and interesting facts.
(c) How to defeat Baglioni.
(d) His plans for the garden.

15. What does Baglioni chuckle to himself on the staircase?
(a) I will win the war and the battle.
(b) I love people too much.
(c) We will thwart Rappaccini yet.
(d) We will cure her of her ills.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words does Giovanni use to describe the plants gorgeousness?

2. What does Baglioni tell Giovanni he has been reading lately?

3. What does Giovanni say Beatrice has filled with poison?

4. Where does Rappaccini watch Beatrice and Giovanni from?

5. What does Baglioni say Giovanni is doing violence towards?

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