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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 color is the outfit Alfonso picks for Lucrezia to wear for her portrait?
(a) Yellow and blue.
(b) Red and black.
(c) Blue and red.
(d) Green and orange.

2. What does Lucrezia speak with Jacopo?
(a) Neapolitan dialect.
(b) Russian.
(c) German.
(d) English.

3. What does Lucrezia manage to do to convince Alfonso she really is sorry for angering him?
(a) Cry.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Shout.
(d) Laugh.

4. What color are the reins on Lucrezia's new animal?
(a) Puce.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue and yellow.
(d) Red and gold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alfonso's response to Lucrezia's offers of helping him?

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

3. Where does Lucrezia think she might never see again as she rides away from it in Part III?

4. What does Alfonso give Lucrezia as a surprise gift in Part III?

5. What does Eleanora dictate must be rinsed through Lucrezia's hair?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Nunciata like to Lucrezia?

3. In the start of Part III, why does Lucrezia have some hope she may be able to survive Alfonso's attempts on her life?

4. What does the Duke say when Lucrezia suggests she may help him with is duties?

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

6. What is Elisabetta like to Lucrezia?

7. What happens to Contrari?

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

9. Who does Emilia hear has ordered the Duke's mother's exile?

10. What does Lucrezia's mother tell her about Alfonso's sisters?

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