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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 Emilia hear about the source of the scream?
(a) It is Elisabetta.
(b) It is Sofia.
(c) It is Jacopo.
(d) It is Nuncia.

2. What does Jacopo say he will do to help Lucrezia in Part V?
(a) Give her medicine.
(b) Give her good books to read.
(c) Stuff rags in the key lock in the door to help her get out.
(d) Feed her unpoisoned food.

3. How does Emilia get her scar?
(a) From a knife.
(b) From birth.
(c) From a stray shot.
(d) From a pot of boiling water.

4. What does Lucrezia think Sofia would have made a wonderful one of if she had been born a man?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A priest.
(c) A condottiero.
(d) A father.

5. What does Sofia do to try to delay Lucrezia's marriage?
(a) Lie about her not having started to menstruate yet.
(b) Feign that she can not read.
(c) Cut off her finger.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Lucrezia's wedding dress?

2. What does Leonello tell Lucrezia about Alfonso that embarrasses her?

3. What is the name of the ill painter's apprentice?

4. What does Eleanora tell Lucrezia she can do in order to cheer her up out of a depression during her childhood?

5. What story does Lucrezia like to hear repeatedly from her parents as a child?

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