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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 Judith do with the Assyrian military leader to get him to let his guard down?
(a) Cooks for him.
(b) Poses as his sister.
(c) Seduces him and has sex with him.
(d) Poses as his lawyer.

2. What does Tassi tell Artemisia she was long before he touched her?
(a) A child.
(b) A woman.
(c) Damaged goods.
(d) A good girl.

3. What does Artemisia seem to lose her ability to do following the rape?
(a) Paint.
(b) Cook.
(c) Sing.
(d) Speak.

4. What did Artemisia's father once tell her about Susanna in paintings?
(a) She is always brave.
(b) She is never alone.
(c) She is always beautiful.
(d) She is never terrified.

5. What happened to Artemisia the day after her mother died?
(a) She got her period for the first time.
(b) She broke her leg.
(c) She threw up.
(d) She contracted the Plague.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Artemisia's smallest brother?

2. Who does Tarquin grip in one of Artemisia's paintings?

3. Why do Judith and Abra laugh as they wait outside the gates of their city?

4. What does Artemisia's mother tell her Judith had to decide right before she killed the Assyrian military leader?

5. What is Tassi's reply to Artemisia when she tells him they are done here?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tassi do to Artemisia in Part III that haunts Artemisia forever afterwards?

2. How does Tassi act when he sees Artemisia for the first time after his assault on her?

3. What do Judith and Abra do for a time as they pause in front of the village gates with Holofernes's head in the basket?

4. What does Artemisia spend so much more time on when she paints than faces?

5. What does Artemisia focus on in her own painting of Judith that she has not seen other renditions of this painting bring to the fore?

6. What does Tassi say to Artemisia immediately after she rebuffs his sexual overtures in Part III?

7. What does Artemisia realize with horror about her body some weeks after Tassi's assault?

8. What does Susanna say for herself at her stoning?

9. How does Rebecca act when Susanna is just about to be stoned?

10. How and when did Artemisia become her father's apprentice?

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