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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 one other kind of animal in the menagerie?

2. What area does Lucrezia's father rule?

3. How do Sofia's father's guards dress?

4. What province is Alfonso Duke of?

5. What are the ceilings at the delizia decorated with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eleanora show Lucrezia affection when she almost dies?

2. What does Lucrezia often do during group lessons with her siblings?

3. What does the Duke send to Lucrezia as an engagement gift?

4. What makes Lucrezia inconsolably sad?

5. What does Alfonso urge Lucrezia again and again to do the night before she falls ill?

6. What does Lucrezia do with the tigress?

7. What does Lucrezia struggle to ask her mother in the carriage on the way to the wedding?

8. Why does Lucrezia feel so alone at the country fortress in Part II?

9. Why does Lucrezia end up marrying the Duke of Ferrara?

10. What does Lucrezia think of her wedding gown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Lucrezia endeavor to protect her core capabilities, feelings, and dignity when she realizes who Alfonso truly is? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring O'Farrell's use of humor throughout the novel.

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