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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is asked of Lucrezia at the delizia?
(a) Nothing.
(b) War counsel.
(c) Gardening.
(d) Cooking.

2. Where is the delizia near?
(a) Milan.
(b) Palanzia.
(c) Voghiera.
(d) Rome.

3. What does Elisabetta warn Lucrezia about?
(a) Alfonso killed his own mother.
(b) Alfonso has many girlfriends.
(c) Alfonso only loved Maria.
(d) Alfonso will blame her if they cannot conceive.

4. How does Lucrezia bid goodbye to Alfonso in Part III?
(a) Singing.
(b) Throwing her shoe at him.
(c) Throwing a fig after him.
(d) Waving a handkerchief.

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

6. Who are Alfonso's sisters?
(a) Elisabetta and Eleanora.
(b) Helena and Elisabetta.
(c) Elisabetta and Nunciata.
(d) Nunciata and Helena.

7. What do Lucrezia and Emilia hear in the dead of night at the castello in Part IV?
(a) A man singing.
(b) A piercing scream.
(c) A tiger's howl.
(d) A shot.

8. Who does Alfonso order to be killed in Part IV?
(a) Nuncia.
(b) Elisabetta.
(c) His mother.
(d) Contrari.

9. What kind of singers does Alfonso like?
(a) Pavorati.
(b) Evirati.
(c) Jovanoti.
(d) Micharoti.

10. What can Lucrezia not stop herself from doing when Alfonso chides her during the storm?
(a) Eating.
(b) Smirking.
(c) Yelling.
(d) Collapsing.

11. What is the name of the ill painter's apprentice?
(a) Ricardo.
(b) Rosa.
(c) Michaelangelo.
(d) Jacopo.

12. Who does Lucrezia write to for the first time from the castello?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

13. What happens to the painter's apprentice in Part III?
(a) He has a seizure or fit.
(b) He eats all the food in the delizia.
(c) He dies.
(d) He steals money.

14. What does Lucrezia wear to disguise herself even at home?
(a) A veil.
(b) A burka.
(c) Her servant's dress.
(d) A hat.

15. What does Lucrezia know she has been brought up for?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Fighting.
(d) Singing.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Alfonso say during Lucrezia's portrait painting that is strange and disturbing?

3. What are Lucrezia's brothers trained as?

4. What does Emilia hear about the source of the scream?

5. What does Eleanora caution Lucrezia to be careful of?

(see the answer keys)

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