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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. Why does Alessandra fake her tumor?
(a) She wants more attention from the other nuns.
(b) She needs to see a doctor.
(c) She feels she has lived long enough.
(d) She is bored.

2. Who tells the painter about Alessandra's pregnancy?
(a) Plautilla.
(b) Alessandra.
(c) Tomaso.
(d) Alessandra's mother.

3. Who does Alessandra have assist her with the fresco in the convent's chapel?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) The Mother Superior.
(c) The painter.
(d) No one.

4. How does Cristoforo react to the plague?
(a) With fear.
(b) He leaves town.
(c) He ignores it.
(d) With humor.

5. How does Alessandra react when the monk asks for her help in Chapter 40?
(a) She is disgusted with him.
(b) She runs away.
(c) She refuses him.
(d) She agrees to help a little.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alessandra ask her mother about her engagement in Chapter 25?

2. In Chapter 21, why does Alessandra begin spending time in Cristoforo's library?

3. Who encourages Alessandra to try for a child with Cristoforo in Chapter 33?

4. When the painter returns Alessandra drawings to her, what does he ask?

5. Where does the painter begin painting the snake on Alessandra?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 25, why does Alessandra ask her mother about her engagement?

2. How does Alessandra grow closer to the painter when he stays with her and Cristoforo?

3. Why does the painter end up locking himself in the chapel, even refusing food?

4. Why is the painter arrested?

5. Why does Cristoforo fake his death?

6. What does Alessandra do before the painter leaves the convent?

7. Why does the painter come to visit Alessandra in Chapter 21?

8. Why does Cristoforo want Alessandra to kick the painter out of their house in Chapter 34?

9. When Alessandra visits the painter while he is locked in the chapel, what does she discover about his art?

10. What does Savonarola do when the plague comes to Florence?

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