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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 123 - 182).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only thing about preparing dinner that Artemisia likes?
(a) Smelling the onions.
(b) Talking with Tuzia.
(c) Tasting the meat.
(d) Wielding the blade.

2. Who is the teacher Orazio has hired to help Artemisia with her painting?
(a) Silvio Banucci.
(b) Marto Valli.
(c) Giovanna Silvestri.
(d) Agostino Tassi.

3. What secret does Artemisia tell Tassi in Part II?
(a) She plans on running away from home soon.
(b) She signs her own name on all of Orazio's paintings, but in a place where no one notices it.
(c) People have started asking her to do her own commissions.
(d) She does all the painting that her father signs his name to.

4. What does Judith say to the Assyrian military leader that prompts him to tell her it will be a shame to kill her?
(a) She is a woman of the Hebrews.
(b) She has been posing as a male solder in his army.
(c) She is a widow.
(d) She is his sister.

5. What does Tuzia tell Artemisia about how she dresses?
(a) She needs to spend more money on clothes.
(b) She looks best in her white dresses.
(c) Just because she is doing a man's work does not mean she has to look like a man.
(d) No clothes could make Artemisia a beauty like her mother was.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Artemisia says to Tassi the day he comes to her studio and rapes her?

2. What is the word on the street about Orazio's Susanna painting?

3. What does Tassi ask Artemisia to call him?

4. How did Artemisia ruin a canvass when she was five or six years old?

5. Who is Judith's servant?

(see the answer key)

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