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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 286 - 333, The Marriage Portrait of Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara - The Underpainting and the Overpainting).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nunciata say Lucrezia seems upon their first meeting?
(a) Sour.
(b) Funny.
(c) Young.
(d) Old.

2. What does Lucrezia do much of while Alfonso is away?
(a) Eat.
(b) Paint.
(c) Sing.
(d) Dance.

3. What does Alfonso seem to want more than anything?
(a) A crown.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A baby.
(d) Money.

4. What does Alfonso send Lucrezia a painting of before their wedding?
(a) A lion.
(b) A bird.
(c) A stone marten.
(d) A tiger.

5. What religion does Alfonso's mother choose to practice?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Islam.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) No religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a servant tell Lucrezia not to do on Alfonso's orders in Part IV?

2. What does Alfonso tell Lucrezia never to do again in Part III?

3. What does Lucrezia think when she finds out the singers have been castrated at young ages?

4. What does Alfonso do in Part III briefly as a game that unsettles Lucrezia?

5. How does Lucrezia feel when she wakens at the fortezza on her first night there?

(see the answer key)

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