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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Lucrezia holding the first time she meets Alfonso?
2. What animal does Lucrezia's father procure for his meagerie?
3. What does the Duke promise he will never do to Lucrezia?
4. What is one other kind of animal in the menagerie?
5. What does Alfonso say to his servant on their first night together that Lucrezia is surprised to hear?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the Duke want more than anything?
2. What does Leonello tell Lucrezia will happen if she does not produce Alfonso's heir?
3. What does Alfonso do that is strange on his and Lucrezia's wedding day on the journey to his home?
4. Where does Lucrezia spend much of her earliest days?
5. What does Alfonso urge Lucrezia again and again to do the night before she falls ill?
6. What does Alfonso say he thinks of the only portrait that Lucrezia's father has had done of her?
7. What does Lucrezia think Alfonso wants to do to her in Part I?
8. What is Eleanora known for and what is her nickname?
9. What is Lucrezia known for within her own family?
10. What does Lucrezia struggle to ask her mother in the carriage on the way to the wedding?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does Alfonso's portrait of the stone marten symbolize to Lucrezia? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How does O'Farrell establish and build suspense throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
How is Lucrezia's near-miss with the boiling water that hit Emilia when they were both very young children foreshadow what is to come for both characters in the end of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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