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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 know she has been brought up for?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Singing.

2. Who does Alfonso order to be killed in Part IV?
(a) Elisabetta.
(b) Contrari.
(c) His mother.
(d) Nuncia.

3. Which sister does Lucrezia end up spending more time with at the castello?
(a) Emilia.
(b) Helena.
(c) Elisabetta.
(d) Anuncio.

4. What is asked of Lucrezia at the delizia?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Cooking.
(c) War counsel.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who are Alfonso's sisters?
(a) Nunciata and Helena.
(b) Elisabetta and Nunciata.
(c) Helena and Elisabetta.
(d) Elisabetta and Eleanora.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucrezia wear to disguise herself even at home?

2. What color are the eyes of the painter's apprentice who becomes ill?

3. What kind of portrait will Alfonso's commissioned painting of Lucrezia be?

4. What do many people think Jacopo cannot do?

5. What color are Elisabetta's rooms draped in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alfonso get so angry at Lucrezia in Part III?

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

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

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

5. Who does Lucrezia save from death in Part III?

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

7. How does Lucrezia feel about posing for a portrait?

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

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

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

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