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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 pretend to like doing because she thinks it is expected of her?
(a) Riding.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Needlepoint.
(d) Gardening.

2. What does Lucrezia do much of while Alfonso is away?
(a) Sing.
(b) Paint.
(c) Dance.
(d) Eat.

3. What is Alfonso's response to Lucrezia's offers of helping him?
(a) She can help with painting.
(b) She can help with war strategy.
(c) She can help cook.
(d) He laughs at her and tells her that her place is in his bed.

4. What links Lucrezia's rooms with Alfonso's?
(a) A staircase.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A balcony.
(d) A fireman's pole.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the painter's apprentice in Part III?

2. What do Lucrezia and Emilia hear in the dead of night at the castello in Part IV?

3. Where does Nunciata tell Lucrezia Alfonso's mother currently is in Part III?

4. What does Nunciata always keep with her?

5. Who does Lucrezia write to for the first time from the castello?

Short Essay Questions

1. What playful gesture does the Duke do to Lucrezia that brings back sour memories of her childhood?

2. Who does Lucrezia write to to say her life is in danger in Part III?

3. What do Lucrezia and Jacopo have in common?

4. What comment does Alfonso make about Lucrezia's portrait that startles her and the painters?

5. What happens to Contrari?

6. What does Emilia tell Lucrezia about their past connection?

7. What is Nunciata like to Lucrezia?

8. What does Lucrezia do when Alfonso is away that makes her very happy?

9. What kind of singers is Lucrezia enchanted, and then appalled, by?

10. What does Lucrezia witness Baldassare do in Part III that really disturbs her?

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