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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 color is Lucrezia's wedding dress?
(a) Many different shades of blue.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

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

3. What does Alfonso tell Lucrezia never to do again in Part III?
(a) Eat in front of people.
(b) Question his or Leonello's judgement.
(c) Cut her hair.
(d) Change her clothes in front of him.

4. How do Sofia's father's guards dress?
(a) Blue livery.
(b) Black livery.
(c) Yellow livery.
(d) Red livery.

5. What is the Italian word for "milk-mother"?
(a) Helia.
(b) Balia.
(c) Falia.
(d) Malia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucrezia do to the tiger that gets her in trouble?

2. Who often speaks for Jacopo?

3. What is the Duke's villa in the country called?

4. Who mostly raises Lucrezia?

5. What does Lucrezia think her husband is trying to do to her?

(see the answer key)

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