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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Giovanni say Beatrice's prayers taint the atmosphere with?
(a) Darkness.
(b) Death.
(c) Hate.
(d) Fear.

3. What is the one subject Giovanni says Baglioni is barred from speaking to him about?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) His studies.
(c) The garden.
(d) His father.

4. What does Beatrice say is the only thing true about her?
(a) The look from her eyes.
(b) The choke of her laughter.
(c) The words from her lips.
(d) The keeness of her smile.

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

6. What does Giovanni feel know more when he gazes into Beatrice's eyes?
(a) Unloved and needy.
(b) Doubt or fear.
(c) Anger or hate.
(d) Love or kindness.

7. Why does Giovanni say he wants to pick a flower from the purple plant?
(a) To contaminate himself with the poison.
(b) To press to his breast.
(c) As a memorial to their meeting.
(d) To give to Beatrice.

8. What does the author say Beatrice's pure delight at Giovanni's company is not unlike?
(a) The lover who finally feels loved.
(b) The maiden stuck in a tower.
(c) The maiden of a lonely island.
(d) The romantic whose found her love.

9. What does Giovanni cry at Beatrice with venom?
(a) Accursed one.
(b) Devil child.
(c) Evil one.
(d) Basketcase.

10. Who does Giovanni say has pale intelligence in this section?
(a) Rappaccini.
(b) Lisabetta.
(c) Beatrice.
(d) Baglioni.

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

12. Which of the following words does Giovanni use to describe the plants gorgeousness?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Super.
(c) Fierce.
(d) Luminous.

13. What does Baglioni say Giovanni is doing violence towards?
(a) His intellect.
(b) His gray hairs.
(c) His passion.
(d) His perfect skin.

14. Where does Rappaccini watch Beatrice and Giovanni from?
(a) His garden shed.
(b) His bedroom.
(c) The garden entrance.
(d) Giovanni's bedroom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beatrice say when Giovanni offers her the antidote?

2. What does Baglioni say the perfume he can smell in Giovanni's apartment is like?

3. What does Beatrice say she has done for the first time in her life?

4. What does Beatrice say her father's love for science has done to her?

5. What does Baglioni chuckle to himself on the staircase?

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