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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 much of while Alfonso is away?
(a) Eat.
(b) Sing.
(c) Paint.
(d) Dance.

2. What does Il Bastianino always do before touching Lucrezia?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Ask for Alfonso's permission but does not wait for him to answer.
(c) Whispers in her ear that he loves her.
(d) Puts makeup on her with a brush.

3. What does Emilia hear about the source of the scream?
(a) It is Sofia.
(b) It is Jacopo.
(c) It is Elisabetta.
(d) It is Nuncia.

4. What does Lucrezia give the painter's apprentice in distress?
(a) Honey and water.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Bread.
(d) Alcohol.

5. What does Lucrezia ride away from the delizia in Part III?
(a) Her tiger.
(b) Her stallion.
(c) Her long-maned mare.
(d) Her mule.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucrezia know she has been brought up for?

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

3. What does Lucrezia speak with Jacopo?

4. What is the name of the ill painter's apprentice?

5. What does Lucrezia think when she finds out the singers have been castrated at young ages?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elisabetta want Lucrezia to keep a secret from Alfonso?

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

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

4. What is Elisabetta like to Lucrezia?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What do Lucrezia and Jacopo have in common?

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