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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Eleanora dictate must be rinsed through Lucrezia's hair?
(a) Lavendar.
(b) Rose water.
(c) Bean-flower water.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does Alfonso do in Part III briefly as a game that unsettles Lucrezia?
(a) Covers her eyes.
(b) Cooks for her.
(c) Trips her.
(d) Ties something around her risk.

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

5. What does Nunciata say Lucrezia seems upon their first meeting?
(a) Funny.
(b) Young.
(c) Sour.
(d) Old.

6. 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 cat.
(d) The household staff.

7. What does Alfonso say during Lucrezia's portrait painting that is strange and disturbing?
(a) He says Lucrezia looks ugly.
(b) He says Lucrezia should have been Maria.
(c) He calls Lucrezia his "first" duchess.
(d) He says Lucrezia looks too old.

8. What does Eleanora caution Lucrezia to be careful of?
(a) The evirati.
(b) Lucrezia's own sisters.
(c) Alfonso's sisters.
(d) Alfonso's brother.

9. Where does Nunciata tell Lucrezia Alfonso's mother currently is in Part III?
(a) Milan.
(b) France.
(c) Rome.
(d) Hamburg.

10. What does Jacopo say he will never forget Lucrezia for?
(a) Her honor.
(b) Her voice.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Saving his life.

11. What do many people think Jacopo cannot do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Draw.
(c) Talk.
(d) Dance.

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

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

14. Whose hairstyle does Lucrezia's begin to imitate in Part III?
(a) Nunciata's.
(b) Helena's.
(c) Elisabetta's.
(d) Michaela's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucrezia manage to do to convince Alfonso she really is sorry for angering him?

2. What does Alfonso tell Lucrezia is always resolved to his satisfaction?

3. How does Lucrezia feel about posing for her portrait?

4. What is the Italian word for "milk-mother"?

5. What does a servant tell Lucrezia not to do on Alfonso's orders in Part IV?

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