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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 Orazio say about how Tassi can help their family?
(a) He can make the family's fortune by throwing commissions their way.
(b) He can write good reviews of their work for the papers.
(c) He can help them move to France, where there is more work.
(d) He can speak to the Pope about giving them more work.

2. What does Artemisia tell her father about Tassi that stops Orazio in his tracks in Part IV?
(a) Tassi raped her.
(b) Tassi has robbed a bank.
(c) Tassi does not paint his own work.
(d) Tassi had someone murdered.

3. Why is Artemisia sick with anxiety when she realizes it has been many weeks since she has bled in Part III?
(a) She thinks she might be dying.
(b) She thinks she might have cancer.
(c) She thinks Artemisia might have drugged her.
(d) She thinks she must be pregnant.

4. What does Daniel tell Susanna is his impression of her?
(a) She is disingenuous.
(b) She is a warrior.
(c) She is a whore.
(d) She is either brave or mad.

5. How does Artemisia feel when she gets her period for the first time following her rape?
(a) Extremely sad.
(b) Angry.
(c) Traumatized.
(d) Deeply relieved.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Judith say to the Assyrian military leader that prompts him to tell her it will be a shame to kill her?

2. What is the one time Tuzia does not do Artemisia's washing?

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

4. What does Daniel tell Susanna when she first enters his chamber?

5. Why does Daniel believe Susanna over the Elders?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Artemisia need Orazio to bring charges against Tassi?

2. What does Tassi say that immediately turns Artemisia off from him in Part III?

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

4. What does Tassi do in a rage the first time he comes back to see Artemisia after she rebuffs his sexual advances?

5. 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?

6. What does Artemisia say to Orazio that seems to make him agree to bring charges against Tassi?

7. What does Tassi tell Artemisia when she tells him she is going to ask her father to bring charges against him?

8. What shocks Artemisia in the immediate aftermath of Tassi's crime against her?

9. 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?

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

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