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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beatrice say her father is fiercely acquainted with?
(a) The scent of a woman.
(b) The secrets of life.
(c) The love of a woman.
(d) The secrets of nature.

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

3. Why does Giovanni think there is probably no need to apologize for entering the garden?
(a) The garden is too beautiful to be kept private.
(b) He is there on Rappaccini's say so.
(c) It would be a sign of weakness.
(d) Lisabetta owns the garden.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Giovanni say is the only place there is a fragrance?

2. What word does the author use to describe Beatrice's haughtiness?

3. What person does Giovanni least expect sympathy from?

4. Where does Beatrice emerge behind from?

5. What does Giovanni cry at Beatrice with venom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Giovanni tell Beatrice about the potion?

2. In what way are Beatrice and GIovanni pawns in a game between the two scientists?

3. How does the one time Beatrice touches Giovanni affect?

4. In what way is it too late when GIovanni finally questions himself and his situation?

5. What does Rappaccini think about his daughter's to be part of society?

6. How does Giovanni express his anger his anger to Beatrice?

7. What is the story that Baglioni tells Giovanni in this section?

8. What do Beatrice and Giovanni talk about together?

9. Why doesn't Giovanni want to see Baglioni in this section?

10. How does Giovanni prove to Beatrice that she has infected him?

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