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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 are Lucrezia's brothers trained as?
(a) Singers.
(b) Writers.
(c) Dancers.
(d) Rulers.

2. What does Lucrezia say she can help Alfonso with?
(a) His decorating.
(b) His food.
(c) His hair.
(d) All his affairs.

3. What is Lucrezia's mother thinking about when Lucrezia is conceived?
(a) Maps and territory.
(b) Art.
(c) Food.
(d) Herself.

4. Who are Lucrezia's two sisters?
(a) Isabella and Helena.
(b) Maria and Isabella.
(c) Helena and Maria.
(d) Maria and Emilia.

5. What does Lucrezia feel kinship with in the way Alfonso treats them both?
(a) His horse, which he keeps tight reins on.
(b) The weather.
(c) The household staff.
(d) The cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one other kind of animal in the menagerie?

2. What does Lucrezia often do when Alfonso comes to have sex with her?

3. What does Lucrezia think of her own portrait?

4. Who comes to the fortezza in Part III?

5. What does Lucrezia do much of while Alfonso is away?

(see the answer key)

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