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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucrezia do to the tiger that gets her in trouble?
(a) Sings to it.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Pets it.
(d) Yells at it.

2. What does Alfonso send Lucrezia a painting of before their wedding?
(a) A lion.
(b) A stone marten.
(c) A bird.
(d) A tiger.

3. Who are Lucrezia's two sisters?
(a) Isabella and Helena.
(b) Helena and Maria.
(c) Maria and Emilia.
(d) Maria and Isabella.

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

5. What does the Duke of Ferrara try to feed Lucrezia in Part I?
(a) Beef.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Venison baked in wine.
(d) Rice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Lucrezia especially nervous at the fortezza near Bondeno in Part I?

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

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

4. What animal does Lucrezia's father procure for his meagerie?

5. What does Alfonso ask Lucrezia to take to Ferrara with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lucrezia think of Leonello?

2. Who comes to help Lucrezia at the fortress when she is ill?

3. How does the tigress die?

4. What does Alfonso urge Lucrezia again and again to do the night before she falls ill?

5. Why does Lucrezia end up marrying the Duke of Ferrara?

6. Where does Lucrezia spend much of her earliest days?

7. What does Lucrezia often do during group lessons with her siblings?

8. What does Lucrezia wonder about Alfonso's feelings at their wedding?

9. What does Leonello tell Lucrezia will happen if she does not produce Alfonso's heir?

10. What is Lucrezia known for within her own family?

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