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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 does Susanna do when she senses the Elders watching her in the bath?
(a) Holds her breath and dips below the surface of the water.
(b) Cries for her husband.
(c) Immediately gets out of the bath to go and stab the Elders watching her.
(d) Cries for her servants.

2. What does Artemisia's mother tell her about the beast?
(a) You never see the best until he is upon you.
(b) The beast is always hungry.
(c) You will always hear the beast breathing.
(d) The beast may look like a friend of the family.

3. What does Tassi ask Artemisia to do in Part II that thrills her at first?
(a) Run away to Florence with him.
(b) Take his assistant's place.
(c) Start her own shop.
(d) Come to paint in his studio.

4. What does Tassi say to Artemisia about her work as soon as she rebuffs his overture?
(a) Her faces are laughable.
(b) Her shading is extremely poor.
(c) Her perspective is terribe.
(d) Her colors are drab.

5. Who is the Assyrian military leader Judith ingratiates herself to?
(a) Attila.
(b) Radicula.
(c) Holofernes.
(d) Molocha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Artemisia tell Tassi that makes him angry in Part II?

2. What does Artemisia think of Susanna as she gathers the remains of her painting of Susanna from the floor?

3. What shocks Artemisia about Tassi's presence in her studio?

4. How does Artemisia paint breasts differently from how men paint them?

5. What does Artemisia focus on in her painting of Judith?

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