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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Giovanni speak when he first gets out of his inner world into his outer world?

2. What does Giovanni buy on the way home?

3. What does Rappaccini think all medicinal virtues are comprised with?

4. What does Lisabetta tell Giovanni she has found?

5. What does Beatrice tell the plant she is faint with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the lizard die?

2. How does Rappaccino react to seeing both Baglioni and Giovanni?

3. How does Giovanni know Professor Baglioni?

4. What is Giovanni's initial opinion of Rappaccini?

5. How does Beatrice react to seeing Giovanni watching her?

6. How does Baglioni greet Giovanni?

7. What affect do Baglioni's words have on Giovanni?

8. How do Baglioni's word affect Giovanni when he goes home?

9. How does Giovanni respond to seeing Baglioni in this section?

10. Why does Giovanni go with Lisabetta if he is so suspicious of her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What similarities does the story have with the Bible story the Fall of Man? What new meaning does the story bring to the Old Testament text?

Essay Topic 2

How does falling in love cause problems for Giovanni? How could he have the troubles that eventually occur at the end of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Examine what the following elements of the story symbolize.

1. The purple flower.

2. The cracked marble fountain.

3. The silver phial.

4. The spider.

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