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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) Dancers.
(c) Rulers.
(d) Writers.

2. What is one other kind of animal in the menagerie?
(a) Apes.
(b) Stone martens.
(c) Fish.
(d) Whales.

3. What does Lucrezia think about becoming a mother?
(a) She has no feelings about it.
(b) She is afraid of being like her own mother.
(c) She feels overwhelmed at the thought.
(d) She can not wait.

4. What province is Alfonso Duke of?
(a) Rome.
(b) Tuscany.
(c) Ferrara.
(d) Milan.

5. What is Lucrezia holding the first time she meets Alfonso?
(a) A flower.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A ferret.
(d) A tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term of affection does Isabella use for Lucrezia's father?

2. What can Lucrezia understand that it seems no one else in her family can?

3. What is unusual about Lucrezia's appearance?

4. Who does Lucrezia write to for the first time from the castello?

5. What does Elisabetta suspect Lucrezia of doing to betray her?

(see the answer key)

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