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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 grip in the carriage before she leaves Florence?
(a) The cross on her rosary.
(b) The beads on her crown.
(c) Her glass animal.
(d) Her tiger's tail.

2. What is the Duke's villa in the country called?
(a) The castello.
(b) The fortezza.
(c) The baclonia.
(d) The delizia.

3. How old is the Duke when Lucrezia thinks he is trying to kill her?
(a) 40.
(b) 42.
(c) 30.
(d) 27.

4. Who is the Duke's right-hand person?
(a) Bernarni.
(b) Henari Fortissimo.
(c) Leonello Baldassare.
(d) Michaelangelo.

5. Who comes to see Lucrezia's gifts from Alfonso?
(a) Pietro.
(b) Helena.
(c) Sofia.
(d) Isabella.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of flowers does Lucrezia have on her wedding day?

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

3. What river does Lucrezia travel along to get to the fortress in Part I?

4. What kind of dialect does Sofia speak?

5. Who comes running out to make sure to say goodbye to Lucrezia before she leaves for Ferrara in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Eleanora known for and what is her nickname?

3. How does Sofia help delay Lucrezia's marriage?

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

5. What does Lucrezia think Alfonso wants to do to her in Part I?

6. What does the Duke send to Lucrezia as an engagement gift?

7. What does Lucrezia turn out to have a particular talent for?

8. Why is Isabella jealous of Lucrezia?

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

10. Why is Cosimo a bit reluctant to have Lucrezia marry the Duke?

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